School: Castlebridge (C.) (roll number 16382)
- Location:
- Castlebridge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs E. Shortall
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0884, Page 142
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Castlebridge (C.)
- XML Page 142
- XML “Clothes Made Locally”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)house making the clothers and they did not stock the cloth.
Cloth was woven long ago and the people wore frieze coats or "bréidín" coats and a tweed pants to the knee.
There is a field in the district called the "bréidín" field and it is owned by a man named Mr Nunn.
Flax was grown locally and it was woven also. The implements that the tailors have when they are working are a scissors, clothes iron, topless thimble, a measuring tape a sewing machine, a lapboard sometimes called a tailor's "Goose" which is used fro pressing the clothes and a flat piece of white chalk called pipe clay.
Shirts(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Marie Redmond
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycrane, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Frank Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Ballyregan or Fairyhill, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Nick Rossiter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardcavan, Co. Wexford
