School: Desart, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 3839)
- Location:
- Ballymack (Desart), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mary Commins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0854, Page 117
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- At about twenty years of age people began to wear boots. Children always went bare-foot in summer but now they think that a disgrace.
People used to put a red spark in the water used for washing the feet before throwing it out, in order to keep away the evil spirits!
In olden times there were about a hundred shoe-makers in the district to one now.
"Ronans" were the local shoe-makers. Clogs were worn in the past but are not worn now,
Leather was tanned in Callan.
