School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Kilglass, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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Clothes made locally
Tailors are very scarce in our part of the country
There is only one tailor in my district known by the name of William Leavy.
Ashbrook,
Scramogue,
Strokestown.
He does nearly all the tailoring thats to be done in the district and his brother Patrick helps him. He does not stock cloth, therefore when people want to get any clothes made with him they have to bring the cloth to him.
The women of the district generally made the shirts for the boys of the house which are made of Flannel-ette, they sometimes sew them on a sewing machine as nearly everyone has one now. They also knit the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Mac Dermott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Culliagh Upper, Co. Roscommon
