School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 349
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- People began to wear boots when they were able to earn the price of them.Women seldom wore boots except going to town or Mass. They usually carried them under arm to near town. Then put them on. Coming home from town they took them off. Katty Twelve toes or Katty Daly never wore boots.Some children go barefoot in summer."Feet water" is not thrown out after dark, the fairies might "get it in the face".Shoes are repaired but nor made now.
There are two "cobblers" in district. It is not a tradition in their family.Clogs were worn in Winter. They are now seldom seen.
- There are two forges. Peter Devany and Peter Reilly are the smiths. The Reillys have been blacksmiths for many years.
Both are near but not on crossroads.
They are not near a stream.
They shoe horses, and donkeys. Long ago they put half shoes on cattle that used work.
Sometimes the door is shaped like a horseshoe.
Forge water cures chillblains.
