School: St. Brendan's (C.), Blennerville

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1. The Care of the Feet

   

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   The majority of them were thirty years before they got a pair of boots, and others of the poorer - class never wore them, At the present time very few children go bare - footed in summer time.
   In country houses the water is thrown out the door as a superstition prevails among them that the fairies could injure them if they kept it inside.
   In Tralee boots were made and repaired by shoe - makers, and cobblers. There were no shoe - makers in our district. Clogs are worn now in slaughter - houses.
   Leather was never made here but it was in Tralee.
   Leather was made from the skin of the young goat, called kid - skin and it was supposed to be the dearest class of leather in ancient times.

   

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2. Wakes and Funerals

   

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   In old times the burial of the people were quite different to what it is to day. There was no such thing as taking a dead body to the chapel after death. A wake was held in the house, and people came

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Williams

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Blennerville, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mrs Jerry O' Connor

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   60

   Address

   Blennerville, Co. Kerry