School: Muckalee, Kilkenny (roll number 3832)
- Location:
- Muckalee, Co. Kilkenny
- Teachers: P. Ó Conchobhair T. Ó Teimhneáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 155
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There is a one tailor in this district. He does his work at home. He makes the clothes when he gets the material. They used to spun the clothes in olden times, they are woven now. The things that tailors use when they working are needles, sewing machines, scissors, thread, pins, and an iron for pressing the clothes. The tailor makes the shirts, and sheets, shirts, and sheets were made out of flax. They made linen with flax. Then they made shirts and sheets out of the linen. Socks and stockings were knitted. The thread was spun in the homes in the olden times. Black crep is worn at a death. There are white clothes worn at a feast. The colour of clothes that are worn at a wedding ar:- black, white, red, grey, blue, green and brown.
