School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

Location:
Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 529

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  1. People began to wear boots and shoes at the age of sixteen years. Many people never wore boots or shoes winter or summer.
    Children go barefooted six months of the year at the present day.
    The customs connected with the water used for washing feet was to put a coal into it and not to throw it out until the next day.
    The number of shoemakers at the present day are very few conpared to that long ago. long ago there was a shoemaker in every village in Ireland.
    Boots and shoes were made and repaired (locally) by shoemakers locally.
    Clogs were woren long ago they are still
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
        1. shoes (~1,841)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Hett
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilmacanelly, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Honor Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilmacanelly, Co. Mayo