School: Leixlip (C.) (roll number 2345)
- Location:
- Leixlip, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Mrs. Harty
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- (continued from previous page)to do all sewing by hand. They still use needle and thimble for basting clothes. Shirts are not made at home nowadays as they are so cheap to buy ready made. Flax is not grown around about here so then cloth for shirts is not made locally.Socks are rarely knitted now, except by the older women who do it for a pastime. Ladies stockings are not knitted at all because they do not wear wollen stockings but fine silk ones which are made cheap. The wool is not woven in the homes around here.Veronica Eiffe
Confey
Told to me by my Mother.
7th December, 1938.
- The tailor's iron is known as the "tailors's goose". This gives rise to the riddle
"What is the hardest dinner to cook".Carmel Cox
Station Road Leixlip
Told to me by my mother.
9th December 1938. - Collector
- Carmel Cox
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leixlip, Co. Kildare
