School: Graughlough
- Location:
- Greaghclogh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Wade
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- In former days boots were not worn by small children, some of them were ten years old or perhaps more before they got boots to wear. Some people never wore boots at all. It was always clogs that were worn in olden times and some people wear them yet. They wore them especially in winter time, they said they said they were the warmest and the cheapest. Some children go barefoot in summer time in warm weather. There is one shoemaker in the district the trade is in the family for four or five generations. There were more shoemakers in former days.(continues on next page)