School: Baile a' Mhuilinn (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Dholáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0041, Page 205
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- Some years ago there were a great number of tradesmen in this district. There were blacksmiths and shoemakers and weavers in it.
There was a shoemaker in MIlltown for a while named David Devane. He was a native of Belmount. He spent about six years n Milltown. He was a very good shoemaker. There were also two other shoemakers named Michael Waldron and his son Patrick Waldron, They were very good shoemakers. They could make a new pair of shoes and mend all sorts of broken ones. They fixed all the shoes of the parish and outside it. They had a special room in the house for working. The room used to be almost filled with shoes. There was a very good blacksmith called Michael Silk in this place. He could shoe horses(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Margaret Grady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas O Grady
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Galway
