School: Drom Bhaoghalláin (roll number 7981)
- Location:
- Ardcarn, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Pagnam
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0231, Page 290
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- People take great care of their feet now when compared with the treatment they got in olden days.At the present time you never see a child running about bare-footed in winter while fifty or sixty years ago you would wonder if you saw a child with shoes on his feet even in winter. I have heard many boys and girls never wore a boot or shoe until they were going to be married, or in the case of others until they were emigrating. It often happened that a person going to town carried his boots on his shoulder until he came within a short distance of the town. It seems these people must be very careful of their footwear.There was one old man who lived only a few miles from Drumboylan and he never wore shoes, when he was asked why he did not have his measure taken for a pair, he would say what is better than "God's leather to God's(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Mac Cormack
- Gender
- Female
