School: Lattoon
- Location:
- Lattoon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 343
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- (continued from previous page)the trenser and placed in the tub and cold spring water is poured in on the butter to wash the milk out of it. When this is completed salt is mixed through it and then it is made into prints or rolls. The butter- milk is used for drinks, and for calves and pigs and for making bread. There are no local sayings about butter or churn-making.
- There is not any tailor in our district but there are two or three in the town of Ballyjamesduff. They work in their homes and do not travel from house to house as in former years.
They do not stock cloth. Cloth is not spun or woven in our district this sixty years. Very little of the clothing worn now is of Irish manufacture. The types of cloth now used are mostly serges and light tweed.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Rose Mc Gennis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coragh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Mc Gennis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coragh, Co. Cavan
