School: Baile an Bhile (B.) (roll number 12195)
- Location:
- Ballinvilla Demesne, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: John F. Higgins
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- (continued from previous page)"hook it" for fear you would drown the fairies.
- The people long never wore shoes until they were seventeen and eighteen years of age. There is no talk about people who never wore shoes. It is usual for children of the present day to go barefooted during the summer months until they are about fourteen or fifteen years of age. The boys used to wash their feet before the girls and they would not throw out the water until it was night. There is one shoemaker in the district now. The shoes were made in the district long ago. There were three shoemakers in the district long ago. The shoemakers had not the trade from their forefathers. If a person wanted(continues on next page)