School: Creewood (roll number 5331)
- Location:
- Creewood, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Chearnacháin
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- Long ago children did not begin to wear boots until they were fifteen or sixteen. There are no accounts of people who never wore boots. Some children long ago went both to school and to Mass barefooted all the year round when their parents could not buy boots for them. There are no beliefs connected with the water that feet is washed in.
In this district the boots are repaired(continues on next page)- Collector
- Vera Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creewood, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Lizzie Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creewood, Co. Meath