School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)
- Location:
- Aughrim, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceocháin
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- (continued from previous page)The shoe-makers do not make shoes as commonly now as they used to do. They nearly always repair the shoes, because there are a great many factories being built, and they are ruining the shoe-maker's trade.Those in factories have more convenient ways of preparing shoes for wear. If the shoemakers wanted to make the leather soft, they used to put it into water, for a half an hour. They they would leave it on the last, and beat it with a hammer, until all the water would be gone out of it. This was sometimes called tanning leather, and where-ever it would be done, the place was called a tan-yard.(Betty Carty, Northbrook)
- In olden times, people used not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Larkin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coololla, Co. Galway