School: Lios Gúl, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 4230)
- Location:
- Lisgoold North, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cathasaigh
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“There is one tailor and three dressmakers in this parish. ...”
(continued from previous page)Then they sent them to the tailor to make clothes of it. There was a handle and a whell, wheel in the spinning wheel. The tailor has a big scissors and a sewing and an iron. The use of the scissors is to cut the cloth. It is with his foot he works the machine and it is called a foot machine. When he a suit of clothes made he irons it with the iron. There is one dressmaker in Templenacarriga and she goes around to the houses if they were far from her house. The tailor has a piece of tape for to take peoples' measure. When there is any friend dead belong to a person that person wears black clothes. The people wear bright clothes at a wedding. The woollen clothes are the warmest. There are up to thirty people working in the mill at Ballinacurrig. It is situated near the Owenacurra river. The tailor has the trade about twenty years.(no title)
“There was a tailor in Cloyne by the name of Cornelius Duhig. ...”
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