School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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- There are two tailors in my district. They do not go from house to house but work at home.
The tailors stock cloth also. Cloth is not woven locally as there are no spinning wheels.
People do not wear clothes made of cloth which has been woven.
Serge and tweeds are the types of cloth used for coats and suits.
There is not any account of shirts made out of flax locally grown.
Most people in my district knit stockings in their homes.
People sometimes wear green sashes on Saint Patrick's Day. At funerals black is sometimes worn and white is often worn at wedding. Blue ia also worn at weddings.
- Collector
- Agatha Lawrence
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Enagh, Co. Cavan
