School: Portlongfield
- Location:
- Portlongfield, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ní Chuilinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0983, Page 147
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- In former times people began to wear boots when they reached the age of twenty. They are still old people who never wear boots or shoes in Summer. The young men seldom wore boots or shoes. Children go barefoot in Summer and wear boots in Winter. The water for washing the feet is thrown out afraid it would bring a misfortune on the house. Boots are make and repaired locally. There are no shoemakers in the district. There are shoemakers living near our district in Carrigallen. All their families were shoemakers their grandfathers and those before them. There are not as many shoemakers at the present day as in former times. Long ago the shoes were made on the one last so that they fitted the right foot or the left as the wearer wished or wanted them. Other shoemakers used to go around from house to house(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Luby
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumhart, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bernard Luby
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Drumhart, Co. Cavan
