School: Whiterock (roll number 13820)
- Location:
- Carrigeengeare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: J. Faulkner
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- (continued from previous page)slung over their shoulder. Then when in view of the chapel or town they sat down on the roadside and put them on and when coming home they took them off again.The ladies or women wore boots with elastic in the sides and no laces and the men wore clogs. The poorer people just wore rage round their feet. They had to be very careful of their feet because with walking over rough stones and walking in damp that feet were badly injured with cuts, stone bruises, hacks, and crigged toes. They used to wash their feet(continues on next page)