School: Cluain Dá Iomaire (roll number 14801)
- Location:
- Cloondahamper (Brown), Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 333
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- (continued from previous page)large colouring pots for colouring wool. They washed it, greased it and spun it. It was then sent to a weaver to be woven. Then it was sent to a tailor and there were coats and other different things made from this.
In winter time wollen stockings are worn. The thread is made by means of a spinning wheel. It is first made into rolls and then spun into thread. It is very useful for stockings jumpers and many other things during the cold winter months.
There are special clothes worn at different times. At a funeral or when a relative is dead there is usually black clothes worn. At a marriage blue clothes are usually worn as the old saying says marry in blue you are sure to be true.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Evoy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Rabbitt
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Cloonboo Beg, Co. Galway
