School: Carrigaline (C.) (roll number 13513)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teachers: Mrs O' Sullivan Mrs Tully
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 133
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- In this locality people old and young have worn shoes for a long time past.
It is related that some of the tramp class work no shoes in early times, and occasionally one may be seen still roving around without them.
It was an old custom for country people to bring their boots and stockings in their hands, when walking to Mass or to the fairs, for economy sake as shoes were then costly and money very scarce
Children do not generally go barefoot in this locality, at any tome of the year.
It is a local [?] belief that the water in which the feet are bathed should never be kept in the house at night.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Aherne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilnaglery, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr M. Aherne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Kilnaglery, Co. Cork
