School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Ó Conaire
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- (continued from previous page)Clothes made locally.keeping the seams down and was to keep the button hole twist from twittering. Some people knit stockings and make shirts in their spare time. The Clarkes were a great family who lived in Castletown. They spun the flax and made the clothes themselves. There are five spinning wheels in this district. Mrs Neill, Mrs. Carey, Mrs. Manny, Mrs Kelly and Mrs Fox have each one. Mrs Kelly has a knitting machine in which she knits socks and stockings. My mother makes shirts and knits stockings in her spare time.J Rabbitt,
Author: James Rabbitt
Keel,
Castletown Geo.- Collector
- J. Rabbitt
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Rabbitt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keelbeg, Co. Westmeath