School: Tír na nEascrach
- Location:
- Tiranascragh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eamonn Ó Coigligh
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- Children never wore boots in former times. An old woman Peggy Hough, who died recently never wore a boot. An old cattle drover, who spent his life driving cattle from fair to fair never wore a boot. His name was Máirtín Purcell.A man named Hart from Birr used attend fairs about 60 years ago and sold brogues from a "cish" at about 2/6 a pair.Clogs were common long ago and one old man Mike Nevin who died a few years ago wore them till he died.There was a shoe maker Pat Meaney in Tiranascragh 50 years ago. There is no(continues on next page)
