School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 080
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- (continued from previous page)for the men.
There was also a shoe-maker in every district who used to make the shoes. Every man and woman when they wanted a pair of shoes would go to the shoemaker and leave their measure. There was never a small pair of shoes. They used never wear a shoe until they were big and take size seven and eight and they used never wear wear them but in Winter. The boys never wore a pants until they were twelve or thirteen years old. They used wear flannel petticoats and plaid dresses and check pinafores.
They used to have a long stick with a strong chain hanging down from it for hanging the pots. They used bake the bread in a griddle and all oatmeal they used make five slices of the cake and put them down in the griddle or something they used clean the hearth well and leave a leaf of cabbage on it and leave the cake down on it and keep twisting it until it is baked.
They used have flint stones for matches to strike a piece of iron against a flint stone and it would light.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Nicholson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr Michael Nicholson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
