School: Drumconrath (B.) (roll number 16143)
- Location:
- Drumcondra, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Patrick Cassidy
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- There are no tailors in the district now but there were some in the district in former times.The tailors used to work in the homes and others used to travel from house to house.some of the tailors used to stock cloth but there is no cloth spun in the district.
Shirts are sometimes made in the homes of various types of cloth.Stockings are knitted locally but the thread is not spun in the homes.
There is one disused spinning wheel in the district. There was no special type of cloth worn on certain occasions.- Collector
- James Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonbartan, Co. Meath