School: Cruimghlinn (roll number 15967)
- Location:
- Crumlin, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0093, Page 118
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- Long ago people did not wear shoes, until they were thirty years of age, they wore treheens instead. These were woollen socks with threads attached to the toes.
If they had shoes they only wore them to Mass or to town. They used not wear them all the way to town, but when they reached the town or the chapel they put them on.
Shoemakers are not as plentiful now, as they were long ago, as the shoes are all bought in the shops. The shoemakers that are now only repair shoes, but long ago they used to make them.
In this place clogs are worn in Winter, the soles are made of wood, and the uppers of old shoes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Kineavy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ross West, Co. Mayo
