School: Bailieboro (Model)

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1. The Care of the Feet (continued)

   

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   that it would hurt his foot.
   A neighbours of ours told us that when she was going to school she would take off her boots when she would get out of sight of her own house and put them on again when she reached the school. The cobbler brought his tools with him and made the shoes in the house of the people. In olden times the people went to a shoemaker and got the measure of their foot taken and got their shoes made to measure just as your would get a suit of clothes made. Shoes are most common now. The boots and shoes are nearly all factory-made now. There is one factory in Bailieborough but only small boots are made in it. Some boots are made of rubber. There was a man in Killinkere who never wore boots or shoes either in summer or winter and he could walk about in the frost and snow just as well as in warm weather. He would dig potatoes just as well as men with boots. There were two men called Smyth's who lived in William

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
         1. shoes (~1,841)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs C. Mc Cartney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Pottle Lower, Co. Cavan