About a hundred years ago the people of this district went barefoot until they were fifteen or sixteen years old. Later on they began to wear a kind of low shoe called a "brog" or "Brogín". A man named McGoldrick who lives in the townland of Kilkoosey is a shoemaker and his father was a shoemaker also. His grandfather was a brogmaker and the tradition has come down in the family for hundreds of years. The shoemakers were a scarce in former times as they are now. It is said that if you keep your feet warm and your head cool you need not give a fig for the doctors