School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

Location:
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 270

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Care of the Feet

Some of people used not wear boots until they were eighteen or nineteen years long ago.

Some of people used not wear boots until they were eighteen or nineteen years long ago. They used to work in the fields and in the dikes and the frost cracking under their feet. Jack Mahoney used never wear boots and he could walk on any thing and he would not feel it. he used to walk on bushes and on briars and he would not feel it.
Most of the children go barefoot in the summer but they put them on in the winter. They throw the water they use for washing

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Collector
Martin Kennelly
Gender
male
Address
Dromin, Co. Kerry
Informant
John Shanahan
Gender
male
Age
69
Address
Dromin, Co. Kerry
Language
English