School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0134
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- The care of the feet.In former times people were up to twenty years before wearing boots or shoes. They used to go to the town bare-footed. They got one pair of shoes in the year for wearing to Mass and take them off when they came from Mass.
The tinkers usually go around bare-footed in Winter or Summer.
A race known as the Milesians never wore shoes or boots. There was a woman in my district named Bessie McHugh, and she din'nt wear shoes or boots till she was forty years.
People should put a coal into the water and then throw it out, after they had their feet(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosie Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
