School: Lios na gCraobh (roll number 5341)
- Location:
- Lisnagreeve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)made from home spun cloth but from material bought from som draper.
Stockings and socks are generally home knitted by the old women. There are no spinning wheels in the parish presently. Different types of clothes are of often worn at different times. At feasts and weddings very modern types are to be seen but at deaths clothes of mourning colours are worn. Black is the principle colour worn. Sometimes the relatives wear a band on their arms as a sign of mourning.
- Collector
- Winnie Brennan
- Gender
- Female
