1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Béal Átha Feorainne (C.)

School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)

Location:
Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 05_039

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 05_039

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.)
  2. XML Page 05_039
  3. XML “Care of the Feet”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Care of the Feet

    Share Share Tweet
    Care of the Feet. 15=6'38
    People never wore shoes in olden times until they were eighteen years of age. They nearly always went in their barefeet except in Winter.
    In Winter time the people used to wear clogs. Long ago the people had great belief in butting a piece of in their boot to cure any sickness or feet trouble. The people call the shoe maker a cobbler. There were more
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
        1. shoes (~1,841)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggie Healy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Creeharmore, Co. Roscommon