School: Árd Bán (roll number 11904)
- Location:
- Ardbane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Briain Ó hEarchaigh
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“In olden times the people all were over twenty years before they put on shoes.”
(continued from previous page)of old dead horses and cattle. Then they used to send them away to get tanned. When they would get them back they would get some halfsole leather and make half soles. Then they used to make wax-end and sew them. When they would have them sewn they used to put on the half soles and put tips on the heels. It is said that these shoes could do any one two years.(no title)
“About 60 years ago there was a smith call Patrick Kenny who lived in the parish of Inver.”
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- Aloysious Mac Shane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ardbane, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Peter Mc Shane
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ardbane, Co. Donegal