School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Cnoc na Graí, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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- In olden times tailors went from house to house making clothes. They had no machines but they worked with the hands. The tailors would come to the house at nine o' clock in the morning and have their breakfast and they worked until six o' clock in the evening.
It would take a tailor three days to make a suit of clothes at that time.
Corney Hickey, Jack Duggan and Denis Reen were the best tailors around Rathmore.- Collector
- Seán Ó Crimthín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisín Uí Chonchúir, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Pádruigh Ó Crimthín
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Lisín Uí Chonchúir, Co. Chiarraí
- Jim Buckley was the master tailor. His journey men were Tim Cahill Gneeveguilla, Dan Corkery Millstreet and John Buckley Umeraboy. The(continues on next page)