1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Calary, Bray

School: Calary, Bray

Location:
Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Bean de Faoite
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 141

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 141

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Calary, Bray
  2. XML Page 141
  3. 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

  1. Clothes Made Locally (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    stockings, and her husband's socks. She also buys the wool in shops.
    When a person is dead the relatives wear a black diomand, or band on their arm and men wear a black tie, and the women wear black dresses and coats. No one ever remembers a spinning wheel in this district.
    Mrs Brian Somers and her sister Miss Jane Roache, made the tights for the tug of war men when they were pulling. They were made of Carkey.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Sutton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Mrs J. Sutton
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow