School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- Care of FeetLong ago the women wore their first pair of shoes to the marriages . They wore troughins which were stockings without and soles. The children in this district goes barefoot in summer and wear clogs in winter. Shoes are mended by a shoemaker called black Ned.Blacksmith; There is only obe blacksmith in the district. He shoes horses, asses and mules and makes ploughs and gated it has a tatched roof. The door is not shaped like a horse shoe but an ordinary door he has only one fire in it. long ago it was supposed the blacksmith had the power of turning anvil on the one he
- There is only one blacksmith in the district. He shoes horses, asses and mules and makes ploughs and gated it has a tatched roof. The door is not shaped like a horse shoe but an ordinary door he has only one fire in it. long ago it was supposed the blacksmith had the power of turning anvil on the one he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Padden
- Gender
- Female
