School: An Cheapach, Askeaton
- Location:
- Cappagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Henry Mulligan
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- (continued from previous page)covered their feet with sheep skin.
- In olden times people began to wear boots at the age of fourteen years. They used to wear clogs and brogues, the clogs were made of timber. The children wear boots or shoes now, when they first start to walk. During the summer months some children go barefoot to school. There was a certain man in the townland of Ballyhomack who lived till he was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Loughnane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derry, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John Loughnane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derry, Co. Limerick