School: Cora Finne (C.) (roll number 12908)
- Location:
- Corrofin, Co. Clare
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 191
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- The men used wear white linen shirts, cravets, cut-away-coats, corduroy knee-breeches buttoned at the knee long socks, and shoes with buskles, and bauneen. The working men used wear grey flannel shirts, bauneens made of flannel also, corduroy knee breeches, home knit socks, nailed boots and swallow tailed coats. Some of the women used wear white frilled caps, others used have a handkerchief tied arround their heads, black flannel shirts, and a small shawl thrown over their shoulders sometimes long home knit stockings and the majority of them used go barefooted.
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- Informant
- Michael Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kells, Co. Clare
- Long ago the women used to be wearing long wide skirts with black braid at the end of them. Shawls were commonly worn or capes and bonnets or hats with large feathers. The women used also wear black woolen stockings home(continues on next page)
