School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 170
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- People in olden times never wore shoes until they reached the age of twenty.
Some people in very olden times never wore shoes at all.
All the children go barefooted to school in the Summer nowadays, but in the winter they wear their boots to school.
When a person washes his feet the water is spilled in the channel in the cowhouse.
All the boots in olden times were made locally by the shoemakers.
In olden times there were ten shoemakers in the district at present.
Leather was made locally in olden times in every district.
There are no shoemakers in the district now on account of all the factories which are in Ireland.
If the people were going to the towns in olden times they would carry their shoes as as the town and put them on just before they reached the town.
Clogs were always worn in olden times and are worn up to the present time.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
