School: Carn an Ríogh (roll number 11619)
- Location:
- Ceathrú an Fhraoigh, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Énrí
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- (continued from previous page)boots. He only wore a pair of home made stockings.
He was supposed to have a cure for sore feet because he never wore any shoes. A man once asked him why he never wore shoes and he told him he could not walk in them.
Long ago the people called the shoes that had wooden soles "brogs". A person who had large feet was called "crubin".
I heard this story from an old woman named Mrs Davey, Carnaree.Eilis Nic Siacus
Carr na nio- Collector
- Éilís Nic Siacus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ceathrú an Fhraoigh, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mrs Davey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ceathrú an Fhraoigh, Co. Shligigh