School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)
- Location:
- Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 348
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- Long ago and up to 40 or 50 years ago shoes were not commonly worn as they are to day and several never wore shoes. A local woman named Mary Anne who was not steady never wore shoes nor did another of the same tribe nicknamed fly. A fisherman living in Tahilla never in his life wore a shoe.
A story is told of a father and mother in Baureeragh in Bonane Parish. Their only girl was twenty years of age and the mother said to the Father "we ought buy a pair of boots for our daughter to fit her to go imeasg an pobail.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynid, Co. Kerry
