School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs. Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0248, Page 200
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- Clogs were made in Glen-a Hamhna. The man that made them is dead. He used to make the clog-soles too. Clogs are still worn. Long ago the people used not wear shoes or boots until they were fifteen or sixteen years. Some people did not get boots until they were going to England. The children used not wear any boots in Winter or Summer. The children nowadays goes bare-foot in Summer.
- Clogs are worn in my district now.
The children go barefooted in summer when it is too warm to wear shoes. There is a man in Cloonfad who can make shoes.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kathleen Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonregee, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Tonregee, Co. Mayo
