School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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- (continued from previous page)and they are repaired locally.
There are no shoemakers in this district.
Clogs were worn locally but they were not made locally. And some people wear clogs yet.
Some of the people long ago wore untanned hide for boots.
There was a man living in Letterkenny called Robert Dobson and he died before last Christmas. He spent his life, and made his fortune, making clogs, and was locally known as the "Clog-man".
- Long ago people did not wear boots until they were seventeen or eighteen years of age. There was a woman who lived in this district and she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Hannigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortnacorrib, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs G. Hannigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Gortnacorrib, Co. Donegal
