School: Clochar na Trocaire
- Location:
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: an tSiúr M. Oilibhéir
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- (continued from previous page)a basin they poured the water into it and then put the salt into it. They also used a raw onion cut in halves and rubbed it on the chilblains, as they believed it would cure them. Then they bathed their feet in the water they had put the salt in. When they had corns or if they sprained their feet they washed them in boiled water left after potatoes being boiled.
Some of the children of today go barefooted during the Summer months as it makes their feet strong and healthy and enable them to go barefooted during the Winter. It is mostly the country children that do this as it makes their feet grow. When the old people had sore feet they used the skins of goats sown together as shoes, as they could not wear the clogs they usually wore because they would hurt them.- Collector
- Carmel Garvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Garvey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway