School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

Location:
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin
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  1. Care of the Feet (continued)

    Some of people used not wear boots until they were eighteen or nineteen years long ago.

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    the feet out the door. The last one that would wash their feet if they did not throw out the water after washing their feet they should get up in the middle of the night and throw it out.
    Some people used to wear clogs locally. They used to wear them in the winter but they are not worn now at all.
    There was a tannery in Listowel about three miles form here. The National Bank is now built where it stood. About fifty or sixty years ago brogues used be worn. They were made of cheap leather and stitched. In Listowel up near the top of church Street lived a man named Johnny the Cottoners or Johnny O' Connor. He used make brogues and sell them at the big fair in Listowel and Abbeyfeale. In the same street lived two men named Mick
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
        1. shoes (~1,841)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Kennelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromin, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    John Shanahan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    69
    Address
    Dromin, Co. Kerry