School: Borris (C.)
- Location:
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Loinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 494
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Stockings should be often changed and carefully washed.
The children attending the country schools seldom wear boots in Summer but the children of the village, Borris, are either too puny, too nervous or too grand to do as their parents did. Again many of our village school girls object to boots - they want shoes or sandals.
Our local shoemakers are Paddy Doran, Paddy Nolan and Jimmie Nolan. Their chief work is boot-mending as since "mass-production" came into being the tradesman's craft has declined.
Paddy Doran however sometimes makes boots to measure and his work is excellent.
- Collector
- Brigid Lennon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcoltrim, Co. Carlow
