School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)
- Location:
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hugh Mc Kee Fleck
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 542
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- (continued from previous page)took them off at the same place coming back again. The children go on their bare feet in the summer. Boots are not made or repaired locally The nearest shoemaker to us in the village of Muff about two miles from here. There are no shoemakers in this locality now. People buy boots and shoes in the shop instead of getting them made with a shoemaker. Clogs were worn times ago, in this district but there are not many of them worn now, they were not made locally. Leather was not made immediately in this district but it was made in the village of Muff about two miles distant, about one hundred years ago.
- Collector
- Sarah Grant
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Grant
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
