School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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- Collector
- Connie Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Portduff, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Maurice O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Portduff, Co. Kerry
- People in former times never wore boots until they were seventeen or eighteen years old. And the elders used to wear them from November to March. Children now go bare-foot in the Summer. Boots were made locally in olden times but boots are not now made locally to any great extent because they are got at the boot factory.
There are eight or nine shoemakers in the district.(continues on next page)