School: An Currach, Lios Uí Chearbhaill, Malla
- Location:
- Curra, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Luanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)tidy, the hearth was swept clean and the chairs arranged by the fireside. The chairs were never placed one on the other with legs turned up, and nothing was left on the table. All this care was necessary in order to have everything in readiness for the "good people" if ever they called.
Shoemakers were plentiful. Shoes were the fashion with the men of sixty or seventy years ago. They were ornamented with a big steel or brass buckle. They wore a corduroy knee-breeches with buttoned "leggings" of the same stuff fitting down over the shoes like the present day spat. Grey homespun stockings were owrn in fine weather and the leggings or "gaiters" were worn in the winter and in bad weather. he guttapercha boot was (was) also worn. It could be resoled by heating the old(continues on next page)
