School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)and were bought in the shops.
There was an iron tip all round the sole.Gura-perca boots
These boots were worn by the young people 40 or 50 years ago. The soles were made of Guta-perca - the juice of a tree growing in America.
It was a waxy stuff that would melt if put near the fire.
The people used sole their own boots. They used redden a piece of an iron hoop and melt off the guta-perca from an old pair of boots and put it on the ones that required soling.
- Collector
- Margaret O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Daniel Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lyraneag, Co. Cork
