School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0992, Page 099
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- (continued from previous page)wear a pair of clogs in the season and go to school barefooted and on frosty morning they used to wear a pair of clogs.
Mr Pat McCormack of Graddum and Mr Louis Gorman of Duffcastle were they only two shoe-makers in the district.
When people used to get a pair of new clogs they would about them.
Long ago the women used to go barefooted they also wore clogs too, & stuff them with hay to keep their feet warm.
- Collector
- Maud Lowry
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Hugh Smith
- Gender
- Male
