School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)of Dunamaggin at her own.
There are no spinning wheels in the district now. All socks and stockings are made by knitting machines.
The thread is not spun or woven.
Black clothes ar usually worn on the death of a relative.
Some people wear green on the 17th of March in honour of Saint Patrick.
Some people who are good sewers, make different sorts of clothes at their own homes generally for their own(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Other names
- Máire de Paor
- Mary Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny