School: Teampull Dubhglaise (roll number 6968)
- Location:
- Drumbologe, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán C. Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 275
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“There was a shirt-factory at Temple-Douglas in Mrs McGinley's. Nearly all the women and girls of this district were occupied making shirts.”
(continued from previous page)McFadden's of Breenagh. Several of the women and girls from this part would go and get as much yarn as would make two or three dozen pairs of socks.
They would knit them at home. Then they would leave them up when they were finished.
They would get tea and sugar, and other things, for knitting, but no money. They would take out more yarn and do the same.
The last industry was "sprigging".
The girls sprigged several linen cloths, which were sent to foreign countries.
A shawl which was sprigged in this parish was worn at the Coronation of the Ex-King Edward VIII of England by his mother Queen Mary. This industry stopped two years ago.
- Collector
- Kathleen Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrora, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Catherine Murray
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Derrora, Co. Donegal