School: Aughaconey
- Location:
- Aghaconny, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomóin
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 312](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0989%2FCBES_0989_312.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 312
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Aughaconey
- XML Page 312
- XML “The Travelling Tailor”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The Travelling TailorAbout forty years ago a tailor named Tom Rehill lived in the townland of Auganadaeena. He used to go from house to house making suits of clothes. He used to bring a scissors a spool of thread and kneedles with him. He used to stay in every house as long as the wanted him.He used to use tweed cloth nearly always. The cloth was bought in Cavan. Sometimes he used to make shirts out of flannenet. He used to make heavy over coats also.Collected by Peadar Smith
Aghaconny, Ballinagh,
Co. Cavan.- Collector
- Peadar Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghaconny, Co. an Chabháin