School: Gleann Bruacháin (B.), Cnoc Luinge (roll number 12613)
- Location:
- Glenbrohane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: P.B. Shine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 431
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- (continued from previous page)The small farmer had his "high-lows" for working days, but on Sundays or at fair or funerals he appeared in well polished shoes, strongly made with thick soles & without nails. These were called light shoes. These were worn generally with long grey worsted stockings and knee-breeches. His wife and daughters also wore similar shoes when appearing in public. The well-to-do farmers, their wives, and families wore "elastics" at all functions. These were the really select foot-wear, and they certainly looked very well on shapely feet. While the shoe-makers cut out the uppers of all the other boots and shoes he manufactured, he had to go to some town or city to purchase the uppers for these elastics if the person requiring them did not bring them to him when he sold his butter or oats in Tipperary, Limerick, or Cork. These uppers were either very high quality "calf" or "kid" leather with a two-inch band of thick, strong elastic stretching on each side from the top of the upper to with an inch or two of the sole. They were a little higher than ordinary(continues on next page)
