School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)was not a tradition in their families.
There is no local shoe-maker now. Long ago shoes were made by these men, but now shoemakers only mend.
Shoes can be bought so cheaply in the shop that those made by shoe-makers are considered too dear to purchase.
Clogs were very much worn in the past and are still worn by all the pupils attending this school in winter.
If you had a good pair of "uppers" you could buy the soles and the clogger would make the clogs. Some years ago there was a clogger on the road from Prizon to Ballyvary.
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
