School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 156
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- Long ago people did not begin to wear boots until they would be about six or seven years of age.
There are no accounts of any people who never wore boots or shoes. They always wore boots of some kind.
In the summer nearly every boy and girl go barefooted because it is the coolest, but any girl or boy who did not go barefooted wore sandals to keep their feet from the pebbles.
The children go barefooted from the first of May until the end of September.
When a person is going to wash their feet they put a pinch of salt in the water to make the feet hard.
It is not supposed to be left in the house over the night. The old people say it is not right.
Clogs were more common years gone by than what they are at present.
A shoe-maker would take a person's measure and he would make a pair of clogs with big heavy soles on them. Leather was never made in the district at any time.
Collected by Annie Callan,
Corbollis,
Ardee.
- Collector
- Annie Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corbollis, Co. Louth
