School: Coolfancy, Tinahely
- Location:
- Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Conaill
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- FootwearA man names Tom Owens never wore boots on Sunday or any other day. He lived in the country and once decided to join the army. When he went to the army he had to wear boots and when he used to put them on he never had the right boot on the right foot. So in order to help him to remember them the officer tied hay on his right leg and right boot and he tied straw on the left. So Tom called his feet not right and left but hay-foot and straw-foot.Bridget Murphy, Ballykelly, Shillelaghfrom Mr. James Maher, Hillbrook, Tinahely
- Collector
- Bridget Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballykelly, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr James Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hillbrook Lower, Co. Wicklow
