School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0673, Page 013
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- (continued from previous page)in Newhall Dunleer that cloth was spun and woven by her Grandmother named Powderly.
People wear cloth of home spun but it is only bought in shops.
The types of cloth used are -: serge, tweed, hair-striped, Gaeltacht, & Foxford.
The only saying I know connected with the tailoring is that a tailor's wife and a tinker's wife never agreed.
The gears or implements used are needles, thread, scissors, goose iron, and ordinary iron, thimble, and a machine.
Shirts are made in the homes, and the type of cloth used are:- calico, flannelette, & cotton.
Cloth was made from flax long ago. Socks are knitted in the homes locally.
The thread is not spun in the homes. There are no spinning wheels in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maisie O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountaintown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Cruickshank
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Mountaintown, Co. Louth
