School: Garr
- Location:
- Garr, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Cáit de Léis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0801, Page 217
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- Some people did not wear boots until they were twenty years old. Some were forty, others were sixty, others never wore any at all. There was a girl living round here a good while ago, who never wore boots. Her name was Lizzie Smith. It is not more than fifteen years ago since she was living. Some children go barefoot now but only in the summer. The tinkers wear no boots winter or summer, but they would if they had them.If you wash your feet on All Souls night you are not to throw out the water, because you are supposed to drown all the souls who are as thick as blades of grass. When our boots get broken we can get them repaired by a cobbler. There was a shoe maker in our district, but he is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Groome
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Garr, Co. Offaly
