School: Gortnasilla (roll number 15133)
- Location:
- Gortnasillagh East, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Mc Loughlin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0205, Page 116
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- 1.There are six tailors in this district
2. They work at their own homes. They do not travel as formerly from house to house when required
2. Some tailors stock cloth but this cloth is not spun and woven locally. People do not wear clothes made of such clothes now but they they used to in former times. Tweed, cotton, and silk are used.
3. It is said that it would take nine tailors to make a man
4. The tailors uses a lot of implements. Some of them are the tailors goose, thimble, needle and iron.
5.My mother makes shirts in the house
6.Linen and flannelette are used and sometimes cotton
7.Flax was grown locally and spun in the people's homes and was taken to a weaver and woven into cloth called linen.
8. Socks and stockings are knitted and the thread is spun locally.
9. There are four spinning wheels in my(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena M. Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Letter, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Rogan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Letter, Co. Leitrim
