School: Billis
- Location:
- Billis, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: R. Binéid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 351
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- (continued from previous page)halter is given away when a horse is being sold. Special fairs are held for cattle.
- There are one or two tailors in the district. They work at their homes. Some tailors stock cloth and others do not. Cloth used to be spun locally but it is not spun now. Local people do not wear clothes made of such cloth. The types of cloth used are flannenet and linen. There are no sayings nor traditions connected with tailors or tailoring. The implements the tailor uses:- scissors, needles, tape and an iron for pressing the clothes. Shirts are made in homes.
- The harmful weed growing on our farm at home is chicken weed, and it spreads very rapidly. It does not impoverish the soil. Herbs and plants grow(continues on next page)
