School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 214
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- (continued from previous page)Even women at eighty years of age never wore any covering on their feet.
They used to get up early on May day and walk in their bare feet in the dew so that they would not get cold in the Summer. They ever went into baithe or wash their feet in Whit Monday because it is unlucky.
When the people washed their feet they used to throw the water under a tree or on a hedge because no one knows where Purgatory is, and they never threw it out at night.
The old people say you should never wash your feet at the fire out of respect for the holy souls.
Long ago old women were seen walking through the snow in their bare feet because their (feet was) as hard as leather.
They used to wear untanned hide round their feet for boots.
- Collector
- Sheila Costello
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
