School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gort ar Mónaidh, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)never wore boots. In olden times people did not wear shoes till they were able to work and earn the price of them. I heard Father Doyle now in U.S.A. a Gortermore priest say that the first "clogs" ever he got he earned the price of them picking potatoes. Some thirty years ago it was no uncommon thing in this district to see children go to Mass barefoot, and even yet plenty of working country women go barefoot from Spring to November as do all the children.
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