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School: Sruth Nua

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Ardnacally, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tomás de Brún
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    Care of the Feet
    We wear shoes at fourteen years of age
    Long ago people wore no shoes. The people who had shoes used to carry them to the place they would be going and when they would be drawing near they would put them on
    Some of the people used to go bare-footed all the time.
    The young children leave their shoes off in summer
    If you had corns or eirigheach wash your feet in bog-water with moss. It would cure them
    It is not right to throw out feet water until every one
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
        1. shoes (~1,841)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Hogan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newbrook, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Hogan
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48
    Address
    Newbrook, Co. Mayo