School: Cor na Fola (C.) (roll number 3604)
- Location:
- Cornafulla, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Úna Ní Ghealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271, Page 141
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- People began to wear boots in former times around the age of twenty years.
There are accounts of people who never wore boots or shoes. There was a poor woman going round the town begging and she never wore a boot or a shoe in summer or winter.
The children at present go barefooted in summer and wear boots in winter.
The water after washing the feet is thrown out. There are no boots made now but they are paired by the people in their own houses.
There are no shoemakers in the district. This has been a tradition in some families in some cases and this is about fifty years ago.
My father knew four shoemakers one in Cornafulla, and his name was Thomas Nicholson, one in Clonown and his name was Henry and this was about(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Cunniffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornafulla, Co. Roscommon
