School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- Children go bear footed in the summer. Long ago the people did not wear boots they started to wear boots about ninety years ago
- Collector
- Edward Glennon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Glennon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- It is not lucky to wash your feet in the kitchen at the fire. John Bret's father never wore shoes till he was seventy years old.
- In olden times people didn't wear boots till about the age of seventy they always used to got barefooted till about that age. Then they began to peep-toe shoes, the leather was put under the sole of the foot and tied around the instep with a piece of twine and another piece of leather to protect the toes from striking against stones