School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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- (continued from previous page)and she never wore shoes and when a sunday would come she would put on clogs and when she would go home again she would leave them off again.
- It is not lucky to put on your one shoe without first putting on the two stockings because they say it is a coins curse if you do that.The people in the old times did not wear shoes with stockings because the people feet was so hard that they had no called for stockingsLong ago the people wore clogs and untanned cows skins the right shape. They sowed them on the sole of the feet. These untanned cows skins kept their feet very warm. Some of the people long ago bought the Clogs they wore and others made them. They bought wood to put in the sole of the clogs and they sewed them all up together.
- There was a woman in Ballanary and she never wore shoes all the year round. The children do not wear boots in(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Gortyarrigan, Co. Donegal
