School: Cill Ábhaill
- Location:
- Killavil, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conláin
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- In olden times the people used to wear no shoes until they would reach the age of twelve years. People wear shoes when they are about one and a half years of age. There are some old people who never wore shoes. Some of these old people are living yet. There is one old woman in my district who never wore shoes. Catherine Freehil is her name. There is another old person who never wore shoes. She is not living in Harristown but she does not live far away. Her name is Margaret Kilcoyne. Shoes were not as plentyful in former times as they are now.
People used to go to town barefooted. They used to carry their shoes and when they reached the town they put them on. The roads were not very nice to travel on and the old people used to go through the fields to town.
They had a certain path to the town. When the people went barefooted they had to take special care of the feet. They used to wash their feet very often. When people have shoes on they do not need to wash their feet very often. Children go barefoot in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Cawley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballonaghan or Harristown, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- M. Cawley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballonaghan or Harristown, Co. Sligo
