School: Long an Inbhair
- Location:
- Lurgananure, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Géibhdigh
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- (continued from previous page)on a Sunday night, and he would have them along with other pairs of boots in the fair of Baileboro on monday. His father James Kernian
Lisnamore was also a famous shoemaker and he was the first man to make boots with pegs in them, and on this account he was called the
"Pegman". Joh Murtha Drumfomina was another shoemaker, and he learned the trade from his father who lived in Drumformina. William Brady Drumollard is still alive in Aughaloughan but he did not make any boots for the past twenty years.
There are very few shoemakers in the country now, and there are a few cobblers who fix boots for the people of the district. In the Winter time some people still wear clogs, and they are much better than boots for keeping the feet warm. The people who used make clogs were John Williamson Billis, and Michael Brady Carrickeeshil, and Bernard Stafford Tievenaman still makes clogs. The shoemakers used buy the boot material in Baileboro, Virginia, Cootehill and other towns.
- Collector
- Thomas Nulty
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Byrd
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Drumfomina, Co. Cavan
