School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Lorcán
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- In olden times the people did not wear any shoes until they were sixteen years of age. They used to wear a kind of "belaced" worked shoe with a toe-cap. The children at present wear no shoes in Summer time. They sometimes wore rabbit-skin or sheep-skin shaped like a shoe in Winter
Long ago there were many shoe-makers in the village, their names were, - William Barry, Richard Barry, Thomas O'Neill, William Foley and many others. The people washed their feet with free-stone and sand which they got in the river. - About forty years ago there lived in Waterford a man by the name of James Magner. He never wore a boot in his life Winter or Summer. He was often seen walking up and down the Quay on a Winter's morning and the frost breaking under his feet. He lived to the ripe old(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Flannery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Buckstown, Co. Kilkenny