School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)at the present day as people prefer the machine made clothes.
On St Patrick's day women wear green clothes and the men wear green ribbons on their coats.
At the death of a relative, black clothes are worn to denote sorrow and grief.
White and blue are the colours worn at weddings.- Collector
- Brigid Ní Longáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Edward Long
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny