School: An Choill Mhór
- Location:
- An Choill Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Frainc de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 97
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- Frainc de Paor
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- John Dever
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- An Choill Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- John Walsh and his brother make and repair shoes. They live in Coill Mor. They come from a family of shoemakers.
Clogs worn round here still in winter. They buy soles and fit them to uppers of old boots.
Some never got boots or shoes until they were twenty years of age others got them when they were going to England at fourteen. - John Hare, 60, Cnoc Glas, Newport is able to make leather
John Spelman 60 Lecarrow, Newport remembers people wearing troighthini
