School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0673, Page 019
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- My Grand Aunt told me that she wore boots when she was about three years old.
Clogs are still worn in the district by the people, only in the Winter time.
They used to make boots from calf skin, and tan it themselves.
There are a lot of shoemakers in the district, and some of them make boots as well as repair them. Their fathers were shoemakers before them, and their names are Gaynor & Campbell.
There are Gaynors in Dunleer, Ardee, & Drogheda.
Nothing is done with the water that the feet are washed in.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maisie O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mountaintown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Cruickshank
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
