School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: An tSr. Concepta le Muire
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- (continued from previous page)material for making the suits. Both local and other Irish made tweeds are serges may be obtained there. All clothes are woven now in the woollen mills but some time ago the people used to weave and spin their own material.
For some reason or another tailors were always considered to be very intelligent men. The reason is that the "journeymen tailors" were constantly travelling from place to place and so had an opportunity of hearing the lastest news debated in different parts of the country. The principal instruments used by a tailor are sewing machines, needles, scissors, thimble and goose or iron. - There are several tailors in Navan. If you want to get something made by the tailor you go to his house and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Barry
- Gender
- Female