School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 278
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- (continued from previous page)She would say she would not be under a compliment to the shoes. The children nowadays go barefoot in Summer.
Some people say that if you wash your feet after sunset it is not right to throw out the water that night. It is also said that if you had chilblains on your hands or feet and if you wash them in the water a stranger washes his feet in, they will be cured.
Boots and clogs are made locally and repaired but not in our district. In olden times people made shoes out of sheep skin by cutting it to the shape of their foot and stitching it together by means of cords cut from the skin without even nails or wooden pegs. The were not very comfortable on account of not been waterproof because the skin was porous. There was an old proverb and a very true one. "There is nothing like leather well put together.
- Collector
- Delia Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Martin Flanagan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Coggalmore, Co. Roscommon
