School: Easgéiphtine (C.) (roll number 2040)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 109
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- (continued from previous page)and those who cannot afford the money to buy boots go barefoot the whole year round.Clogs are wore by people at the present day who work at creameries and factories and by farmers at work in the farm.Boots are made and repaired locally in the district. There are three shoemakers in the town. It is in the family and has been handed down from father to son. There are two brothers and an uncle. It goes back for more than fifty years.In fomer there were five shoemakers in the district. When they died none of there, their sons took up shoemaking because they had no taste for the trade.When people wash their feet they throw out the water, because they say it is unlucky to keep feetwater in the house because they say faries would hunt you. It was a custom long ago if people forgot to throw out feetwater, they should get up in the middle of the night and throw it out.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
