School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)
- Location:
- Irishtown, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Manus
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- People began to wear boots and shoes at the age of sixteen years. Many people never wore boots or shoes winter or summer.
Children go barefooted six months of the year at the present day.
The customs connected with the water used for washing feet was to put a coal into it and not to throw it out until the next day.
The number of shoemakers at the present day are very few conpared to that long ago. long ago there was a shoemaker in every village in Ireland.
Boots and shoes were made and repaired (locally) by shoemakers locally.
Clogs were woren long ago they are still(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maureen Hett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmacanelly, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Honor Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmacanelly, Co. Mayo