School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - The only people around here that never wore boots were two men. I cannot find their names. If you wash your feet in the night time and throw the water out without spitting in it, it is said that you threw it in on the angels face. If you forget to spit in it you should gather yellow rag weed.
That is a yellow weed that grows in bad land. It is about twenty years since clogs were worn. Young children go barefooted in summer. If you have tender feet boil the bark of oak and it will make them all right, if you bathed in liquor
