School: Crannach, Inis
- Location:
- Cranny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0603, Page 102
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- (continued from previous page)nippers, ass-shoes, pony-shoes, and horse-shoes. He mounts cars and shoes wheels. He mends ploughs, harrows, machines and scythes.
- Long ago people used not wear their shoes until they were about twenty years of age. We wear our shoes when we are well able to walk. It is from the first of April to the first October that we go barefooted. There are four shoemakers in my own district. They repair as well as make shoes. The names of the shoemakers are, Tom Clancy, Tom Grace, Jack Carty, and Pat Shannon. Long ago the shoes were made of "Gutta Percha". They were made very comfortably but they used melt when left near the fire.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cranny, Co. Clare
