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School: Na Hárda (Ardfield), Clanna Caoilte (roll number 1267)

Location:
Ardfield, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Caitlín, Bean Uí Ghrífín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0317, Page 184

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  1. The Age the People Long Ago Used to Be when They Began to Wear Shoes

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    About one hundred years ago the children going to school used not wear any shoes until they were twelve years. They used take off their shoes until they reached as far as the Church and then put them on before they would go in to Mass. But in the frost weather they used not put any shoe on them but got straw and made a sugán rope of it then they used wind it around their leg up as far as their knees.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Driscoll
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dunowen, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Patrick Driscoll
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunowen, Co. Cork