School: Baile an Leasa (roll number 15561)
- Location:
- Baile an Leasa, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Mhathghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0037, Page 0229
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- (continued from previous page)so they passed the machine from one house to another, and ironed as many as half a dozen at one time.
My mother told me about the long navy blue cloak worn by women long ago. It had a hood made of the same material. There were generally got as a wedding cloak but the material was so strong that they lasted a life time.Our teacher told us that even up to 1920 the young girls in Kinsale town wore those cloaks going out to early mass.
- Collector
- Nellie Keavney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cluain Mór, Co. na Gaillimhe
