School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0974, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)maker in every locality who made boots. These were made from fine stout leather and a few pairs lasted a life-time. Men worked bare-foot at turf, hay, flax - pulling and spreading and so saved shoe-leather. Every year a "beet" of flax was kept over to a make family boot laces for a year. A few strands of flax was rubbed between the thumbs until it was fine and silky. A few strands of this were twisted and plaited like a rope. This was dyed black with soot from the crook and was used as a boot lace. It was very strong.
Many men made their own watch-chains from horse-hair. These were jet black and lasted a life-time.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosaleen Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Edward Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Carrickmore, Co. Cavan
