Many different styles of shoes were constructed by the early Celts. Shoes showed how high a person was in a Celtic society and would have been very hard to make as most of their shoes were constructed of one piece of leather then sewn with an ornate seam, using gut. Shoes were often decorated with interlacing strips of leather or from designs cut into the surface of the leather. Some earlier shoes were made of untanned hides with their hair on; the hide was folded up over the foot then sewn in place with twine or thonging.

The picture shows an early Irish slipper shoe. This type of shoe is from approximately 700-900.