School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Achadh an Iúir, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Mrs B. Farrelly
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 518
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Virginia (C )
- XML Page 518
- XML “The Care of the Feet”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)There is one shoe-maker in this district. The number of shoemakers in it long was was seven. The reason of this change is that those shoemakers never taught the trade to anyone but their own people.
There were clogs made locally they are even made around here yet. There is a clog maker named Pat Kiernan living a couple of miles outside Virginia
There were foot coverings of sheep skin used instead of boots long ago. These were made by two men who lived in Cornasesk.(continues on next page)
