School: Ceathrú Riabhach (Cahooreigh)
- Location:
- Aghalee More, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Donnabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 256
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- 156Cahooreigh National School Killarney 17/10/38Clothes made LocallyThere are no tailors in my District. But there are many tailors in Killarney. Tailors do not work in my District. Long ago the tailors used go around from house to house making clothes. They used sit on the kitchen table and make the clothes that is about sixty or seventy years ago. The people used set flax about eighty years ago when it used be grown up the people used pull it and they used boy it in a river and they used leave it there for a week. Then the coarse flax is left and the kackler used come around to each house with a kackle and he used kackle it and make it into threads. Then it is sent away and made into linen. Then the farmers wifes used make sheets, shirts, and linen tablecloths. Some more of the people used weave the flax and spun it at their own homes. It is easy to prove that linen shirts were worn because Billey Myers Sheans wore a linen shirt playing football inside Bill Allens gate Coolgarrive Killarney. Tom Leane of Knockeenduff had no linen shirt(continues on next page)
