School: Crummy (roll number 12691)
- Location:
- Crummy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Rodacháin
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The care of the feetLong ago people didnt begin to wear shoes until they were about sixteen or seventeen years. It was then the custom for people to go barefooted for about eight months of the year. In the winter time children had to be carried to school and home again. All middle aged people wore clogs and sometimes they might have a pair of heavy shoes for Sunday but the young people had always to go to mass barefooted. There were about six shoemakers in this district and nowadays there are only tow. Ward was the most common name of the shoemakers.
