School: St. Cronan's Longford Wood, An Teampoll Mór (roll number 6662)
- Location:
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 298
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- The Care of the FeetIn olden times in this district no-one man, woman, or child ever wore a boot till he was over twenty-one. In fact there were people who never wore boots from the day of their birth to that of their death.At the present time one never sees a grown person without boots or shoes, except when he is wheeling turf in a bog, but all school-boys go barefoot to school in the summer months and often late in the autumn.In a few houses in the district, even until this day the water used for washing the feet is left behind the kitchen door at night; it is said that it keeps fairies and evil things like that from entering the house at night.There are no boots made locally now, but fifty years ago there was a noted family of boot-makers in Borrisnoe, a mile and a half west of this school. The name of this family was "Gray" and one of them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joe Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Martin Treacy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonakenny, Co. Tipperary
