School: Ballyhahill (C.) (roll number 10686)
- Location:
- Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: H. Fitzgerald
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- Collector
- Annetta Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonlahard East, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs James Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Cloonlahard East, Co. Limerick
- Care of the Feet
It was the custom long ago, for people to wear boots only from November to April and on the Sundays in Summer. It is only children now-a-days who go barefoot during the week-days in hot weather, and even that is dying out, for cheap rubber and leather sandals are to be had. Water, that feet have been washed in, is always thrown out.
Boots are made and repaired locally. There is one shoe-maker in the district, who carries on this trade. He is a stranger who has come in to live in this parish. There are less shoe-makers now, in the country than long ago. Factory made boots are more in demand. Shopkeepers have multiplied themselves all over. There are shops in every possible place now.(continues on next page)