Cúram na gCosAn bhfuil trácht ar daoine nár chaith aon bhróg riamh?
Tá trácht ar daoine nar chaith aon bróg riamh.
Leanbhaí an lae indiu an gnáthach leó dul cosnocht tamall do'n bhlain?
Is gnáthach le leanbhaí an lae indiu a dhul cosnocht san t-Samhradh achán bhlain.
An t-uisce do mightear na cosa ann cad a deintear leis?
Caitear amach an t-uisce a nightear na cosa leis.
An ndeintear bróga san áir anois?
Déintear bróga san áit seo i gcomhnuidhe
An ndeisightear bróga ann?
Deisightear go leor bróga ann.
An raibh an ceárd ag na gréasaidhthe le sinnsearacht?
Bhí an ceárd ag na gréasaidhthe le sinnsearacht.
An flúirsighe a bhíodh gréasaidhe san áit fadó ná mar atáid anois?
Is flúirsighe na gréasaidhe san áit seo

Curam na gCos
Some people were 30 years before they wore shoes long ago.

Curam na gCos.Long ago boys and girls used to be eighteen years of age before they wore the first pair of shoes. Others used not get any until they were preparing to go to America. Old men used go to the bog cutting turf and footing it without any shoes. Nowadays the country children leave off their shoes during the Summer months. Long ago in every village there was one or two shoe makers. Some of them were called Griosaí Gaedheal and others shoe-makers. The Griosaí Gaedheal used to make strong shoes. They used saw them with thongs and the blacksmiths used make the tips for them and also the cobbler's nails. The shoe makers used to make fancy shoes like the shoes now. Other people used to wear troighthíní which were made like a woollen stocking and came up as far as their knees. They had no soles in them. They used to put sockets under their feet down in the shoes to

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Cúram na gCos.
A hundred years ago or so children did not wear boots till
they were 15 or 16 years of age.Men in general wore them more than women.This would be due to the fact that they had to work.At present boys go barefooted for most of the summer.Some in times not so long past(in living memory)wore boots only when going to mass,to town.
Foot water-not right to throw it out when anyone belonging to the house is out.But it should always be thrown out at night and to the right of the door when last person comes in.

Cúram na gCos 3..6..1938
The children in olden times were fourteen years old and sometimes older before they wore shoes. My mother was fourteen years before she had any shoes.
There was an old woman in my own town-land named Margaret McAlister and she never had on shoes, she always went about bare-footed.
There was another old woman who lived in the town-land of Doaghmore named Bridget Carr and she never wore shoes.
The children nowadays have on shoes when they are about two months old. Some of the children in this part run about in the bare feet in Summer. Most of the children at our school are on the bare

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Cúram na gcos.
People in olden times used be about twelve years before they used wear shoes.Some people in this district ,in olden times ,hardly ever wore shoes.
The children of today go barefooted for a part of the year, from about the 1st may until the end of August.
The water used for washing the feet is generally thrown away .
Shoes are not made in this parish ,but are made in the borders of it .Shoes are mended in this district ,the sayings that relate to the work are :- pieces, toe caps,taoibhín, soles,The shoemakers did not receive their by descent.The shoemakers were very plentiful in the district long ago.
Their used be timber soled shoes worn in the place long ago. They used be bought in the shops but they are not still worn.
There is no tanning done in this place .It used be done in this place long ago.Long ago pieces of the .

Cúram na gCosLong ago the people used not wear any boots. They used
to dig with a spade barefooted.There is a woman
living in Ballyportrey who very seldom wears boots.
She has a pair of elastics and she wears them going to Mass.
Long ago the old people used to say; you should not
throw out the feet-water after dark because the fairies
might be passing. If they wanted to keep it inside
during the night they should put a coal of fire into
it.Collected by:- Máire Ní Choileáin Dromoher.
Told by: - Patrick Linnane Dromoher.