School: Smithstown, Castlecomer (roll number 14626)
- Location:
- Smithstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Mhórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 230
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- People in former days used to go in their bare-feet until they would be four or five years of age. Some people never wore boots or shoes in their lives. The children now-a-days gets shoes when they are little babies. Most of the school-children at present go in their bare-feet in the summer and sometimes until September.
Boots and shoes are made and repaired in our district. Mr. Roche makes them. His father was a shoemaker also for a long long time. Clogs are wore now by some people. People makes them now-a-days in Carlow. People used to throw the water used for washing the feet under a hawthorn bush. It is said that it stops the root from spreading.
- Collector
- Mary Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Edward Kehoe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Coan, Co. Kilkenny
