School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)to stay barefoot. When children are five years now they go barefoot until they go are fifteen. It is in summer they go barefoot until they are fifteen they leave or their boots all they other parts of they year because it is too cold.
- In years gone by the people in our district used not wear boots until they were twenty years of age. The children at present go barefooted in the summer. There is a man named John Galvin making boots and repairing boots at the present time. All his ancestors were at the same trade. There are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Ned Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
