School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)house to make the shoes the same as the tailors used to come to make the clothes. Hand - sewing all was used in these times.
- The children go barefooted nowadays during the Summer months. Some kinds of shoes are made in this place they are also mended. Shoemakers were fairly plentiful long ago. Clogs used to be worn by many long ago, and there are still a few wearing them yet. Leather used to be cured in Ballumore Upper about fifty years ago. The old people say it was far better leather than what we get nowadays.
Mylie Ferry who lived in Knock-na-Faugher was a great leather(continues on next page) - Collector
- Philomena Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Grace Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal
