School: Ferbane (Convent)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr Patrick
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- There were several industries carried on in this district about sixty years ago, but many of them have died out. The principal were spinning and weaving, because people had to make the material for their own clothes. The women used to spin flax and wool with a spinning wheel. Then it would be woven into material on a hand - loom by a weaver, and the tailor would go from house to house making the clothes.
The only trades carried on in this district now are carpentry and smith - work.
The carpenter makes cars,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary J. Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Stephen Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly