School: Gallow (roll number 8301)
- Location:
- Gallow, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhuirín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 389
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- (continued from previous page)the same. The shirts they wore were made in the homes.
Rita Murrin
Parish Coole
Townland Gallow
Garadice
Kilcock
- 10 May 1938 How the tailor sits at his work
When the tailor is sewing he sits on the table or on a board in his shirt sleeves with his legs crossed and spreads the garment on his knee. But nowadays most of the work is done by machine. When the tailor is working he does not wear boots, he is generally in stocking feet and without a coat. A tailor's thimble has no bottom as he pushes in the needle with the side of the thimble. The big iron he uses is called a tailor's goose- it has no feet. He uses a very big scissors for cutting the material with.
