School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Cnoc na Góla, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 041
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- There is no tailor in this district but my father told me there were three in it in former times. There names were John Reilly, Harry Ritman and James Lee. One of them was a travelling tailor and the other two worked in their homes. They spun their own linen from which they made shirts. My father told me that he remembers about fifty years ago, he got a trousers made with one of the tailors whose name is John Reilly. It was a frieze trousers and he liked it so much that he fitted it on him two or three times before he reached the house. The frieze was made from the coarse part of the linen. My father told me that he had an old frieze coat over forty years.
The name of the tools he had were a sissors, a thimble, a goose, and a press board. The goose was a large piece of iron from seven(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
