School: Lismacaffry
- Location:
- Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Gamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 379
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- Long ago people did not wear boots or shoes until they were sixteen or seventeen years of age. My fathers grand-father never wore a boot or a shoe. All the children at present go barefoot in the Summer. It is a custom with everyone to wash their feet on Good Friday and to keep the water because there is a cure in it.
Boots are made and repaired locally. There is one shoemaker in the district. There were more(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Christy Newman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Coolnagun, Co. Westmeath
