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   Folklore
   30th March 1938
   Long ago, the people wore no shoes until they were sixteen or seventeen years old and the kind of shoes they had were clogs. A shoe maker made them, and he had to make them with his hands, because they had no machines that time. When they got a pair of clogs, they would have them three or four years. Shoes were very cheap, cheap long ago, they were only on three or four shillings a pair. They used only wear the clogs three or four months in Winter, and every Sunday. They used to go bare footed the rest of the year, and they used to go to fairs, and long journeys without shoes. On that account their feet used to be all cut and bruised. There was a man named Michael Kelly and he never wore a shoe. He was thirty years old when he died. Long ago when the people would wash their feet at night, they would have to throw out the water after them, because it was said that the fairies would come in and take them if they did not throw it out. Now they have to get shoes, when they are one or two years old, and you would pay as much

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Josie Mc Gough

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Curry Eighter, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Michael Mc Gough

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Curry Eighter, Co. Galway