School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0992, Page 098
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- Long ago people used to wear boats with wooden soles called clogs.
To make polish for these boots the used to burn straw and mix it with sweet milk.
Every day of the week was the same they used to wear the clogs to mass. For laces the used to make a lace of twisted flax and rub it between their hands.
There was not many shoemakers about the country everyone did their own mending.
The people used to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Lowry
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Hugh Smith
- Gender
- Male
