It's an authentic Michael Flatley shoe and it took some delicate sidestepping to bring it to Carron in Co Clare, best known as the birthplace of Michael Cusack, one of the founders of the GAA.
Robert Cassidy, an organiser of the Burren Festival held in the village this weekend, thought the shoe, dipped in bronze and mounted on local limestone, would make a fitting prize for the winners of the set-dancing competition.
He said Mr Flatley thought it was a joke when he was asked for a shoe but "was all into it" when he realised it was for real.
Mr Flatley, a cattle dealer from Castlebar, Co Mayo, and a very distant cousin of the Lord of the Dance, was unable to make the presentation in person early on Saturday morning. Mr Cassidy's wife, Michelle, was on the local team which won the prize for the best traditionally dressed set.
Her team of eight was pitted against 10 other teams from such places as Inagh, Corofin and Kilfenora.
The festival was last held in the village in 1937 when the local judge who had been hostile to the event the previous year was on holidays.
Mr Cassidy said the judge vowed there would not be another festival in Carron as long as he presided there.
"We finally got rid of him," he said.