School: Killasnett (roll number 9533)
- Location:
- Curraghfore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eoghan Mac Oirealla
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- (continued from previous page)shape of the mouth of a creel and brought it into the byre and made a pair of creels on a winters night.
The women sat all night spinning and weaving thier own clothes. One a stormy winters day the men patched thier own clothes while the women cooked the dinner.
Long ago it was all shoemaker's shoes were worn and it was only a gentleman that wore shop shoes. Now every Tom Dick and Harry is wearing shop shoes. Is it not a shame that all those old customs are going out of Ireland- the customs that kept them in house and home-
