School: Baile an Bhile (B.) (roll number 12195)
- Location:
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John F. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)to be a shoemaker he had to learn the trade from another shoemaker.
Clogs were worn in the district long ago. Clogs are worn yet there was no tannery in the place log ago. The people wore hides of cows and of other animals around their feet about sixty and seventy years ago. Information from: - Mary Lyons
Belisker,
Brickens,
Claremorris. Collector:- James Lyons,
Belisker,
Brickens,
Claremorris.
- There is a woman down in Bekan and she never wears a shoe winter or summer. She is about sixty-five years of age. She never gets sick any time of the year. Some of the people nowadays go without shoes in summer. There is nothing done with the water that washes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Darcy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belesker, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Begley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belesker, Co. Mayo
