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 143
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- According to a story told in this district young people were marriageable before they wore boots. There is a story told about a young man named Tom Nolan. The morning he was going out to be married he failed and his father rather than disappoint the girl asked the younger son would he marry the girl and he agreed on conditions that the other brother would give him his shoes. A man by the name of Glennon of Ballydangan died at the age of fifty years and he never wore a boot.The children of to-day wear no boots or shoes in summer. The story that is told about the feet-water that it is not thrown out until every member of the family is in, fearing that they would go astray. There are no shoemakers in the district at present but about thirty ago there was a shoe-maker in Cornafulla named Thomas Nicholson and he made all boots for the people in the locality. In districts(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dolly Durney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornafulla, Co. Roscommon
