School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)

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   the name of John Butler found it. There is always a hole as an entrance in and he went down in the hole and found the crock.

   

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2. Clothes

   

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   My mother used to make clothes,she was a dressmaker,but she does not make them now. She used to make them in Mountrath with another dressmaker. My great grandmother had a spinning wheel and she spun thread with it. She used to go gathering the wool on the ditches where the sheep were and then bring it home and get a piece of card board and cut it in a square and roll the thread around it.

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Lalor

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   55

   Occupation

   Dress-maker

   Address

   Coolrain, Co. Laois