School: Ballyburke (roll number 5125)
- Location:
- Bellaburke, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cheallaigh
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- The clothes the old people wore long ago were all homespuns. These clothes were very warm as they were all made of wool. The old people always kept a spinning weel and they used to spin yarns of thread and they brought it to the weaver and he wove it into blankets or jerseys which were called in them times báiníns. Long ago there was a tailor living in our village whose name was Edward Parson and it was he who made all the clothes for the people about the place. This man was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Geraty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Balloor West, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Geraty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Balloor West, Co. Mayo