School: Réidhleán (Measctha), Áth an Chóiste
- Location:
- Rylane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Buachalla
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- In years gone by people went bare-foot all the year round. The older people wore clogs and shoe-maker shoes. Clogs were sold in the local shops formerly, but now they are not stocked in most shops. A woman, who sold clogs in former times, and who got great demand for them, is still continuing the business. A song was therefore composed referring to this woman."Ye lads and gas lasses, old men and old women.
The winter is coming, and cold it will be.
So keep yourself warm, and you'll draw the pension
If you buy those fine clogs, from your own Mary D"The uppers are made of the best of fine leather!
And the soles they are cut from the bark of a tree.
For she's selling each pair, for two and three half-pence.
And be sure and don't get fooled, by that fraud Mary D."
- Collector
- Mary Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknagoun, Co. Cork
- A pair of boots would serve people for the most of their lives, because the only time they wore them was going to Mass. A story is told about a man, who was coming to Mass barefooted, and he had his boots under his arms. And when he was going into Mass, he put on his boots, and he fell inside the door, because he was not accustomed to(continues on next page)
