School: Kill
- Location:
- Kill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Timlin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 121
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- We should take great care of our feet and wash them constantly. It is said to be unlucky to throw out feet water after night, and the old people when they washed their feet at night, kept the water till the next day, and then threw it out. To bathe sore feet in potato water, was said to cure them.
The old people would not cut their nails of their toes in Lent, because they thought it unlucky.
The old people still wear clogs in my district in the Winter time because they are warm. There are not as many people wearing clogs now as there used to be
Long ago the children used to go barefoot from the first of April to the first of November, but(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Smith
- Gender
- Female
