School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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- In former times people usen't wear any boots until they would be fifteen or twenty years. They would have to go to England first and earn the price[?] of them. At the present day children go bare-footed in Summer and some poor ones such as tinkers go barefooted all the year round.
It was a custom in olden times to put a coal in the water after washing your feet and not to throw it out until the next day. Boots are made locally by a shoemaker an[?] who lives in Ballindine. He is the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Kate Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Kilgarriff
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doonmacreena, Co. Mayo