School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 164
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- Long ago people never used to wash their feet at the fire-side because they believed that the holy Souls suffer there.
The water you wash your feet in should never be thrown out after dark. You should keep it till the next day and throw it under a tree or on top of a ditch or a hedge so that no one could walk on it.
Some people spit into it before they throw it out as a sign of luck and others light a match and put it up side down in the water and leave it burning.
There was a man named Mr William Quail. He lived in a place called Fletcherstown about six miles from Kells. He used to make hand-made boots and on a fair and Market day he used to go to Kells with a wooden box full of boots and get great sale for them. It is only three years ago since he gave up the practice.
- Collector
- Bertha Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
