School: Leacht na mBard (Latnamard) (roll number 16769)
- Location:
- Leacht na mBard, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- There was one house in Effernagh where clogs were made by a man named James Clerkin. His grandson is a shoemaker. There were no tips on these clogs - just the common wood. The people wore them on week days and polished them on Saturday night for Mass on Sunday. There was a house very like a forge. The man who owned it lived in Carolina and he had a farm near Armstrong's Lake and he changed one of the out offices into a 'tin house' where he mended pots and pans and put shafts in shovels. He used to cut a piece of tin to patch a pot as a man would cut a piece of leather to mend a boot. He mended buckets also. His name was Joe Smyth.
- Informant
- Patrick Clerkin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Géanach, Co. Mhuineacháin
