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School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)

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Aughrim, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Ceocháin
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    The shoe-makers do not make shoes as commonly now as they used to do. They nearly always repair the shoes, because there are a great many factories being built, and they are ruining the shoe-maker's trade.
    Those in factories have more convenient ways of preparing shoes for wear. If the shoemakers wanted to make the leather soft, they used to put it into water, for a half an hour. They they would leave it on the last, and beat it with a hammer, until all the water would be gone out of it. This was sometimes called tanning leather, and where-ever it would be done, the place was called a tan-yard.
    (Betty Carty, Northbrook)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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