School: Rathdowney (B.) (roll number 15595)
- Location:
- Rathdowney, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Peter Hegarty
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- There are two tailors in Rathdowney one in the wast end and another in the south. A tailor's implements are, a needle, and iron, an iron,a sewing machine, a scissors, a measuring tape, and an ironing board. Long ago the tailors used to travel from house to house instead of making clothes in their own houses.
Long ago the people used to grow fox around hear and my father told me that his grandfather grew some of it.Then they would make linen out of it and make shirts and table clothes and other things out of the linen.(continues on next page)- Collector
- John Smeaton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathdowney, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mr Dan Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 88
- Address
- Rathdowney, Co. Laois