School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- Thomas Hurley
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- They used not put on the shoes until they got to the Chapel Gate & when Mass was over they would take them off again
- Not very long ago, an old beggar man named Bill Millea passed thro this district very often and he never wore a shoe.
- Coadys from Callan & Ryans from Thomastown used make leather.
- In olden times, after washing the feet, they used throw the water at the back of the fire so that the fairies would have nothing to do with it.
