School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)

Location:
Carrowgilhooly, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Conaill
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  1. Long ago when people were in or about the age of twenty years they began to wear shoes or boots. There is an account of one person that we know who never wore boots or shoes. She was a poor beggar woman and she is not so long dead in or about two years and she never wore shoes. She used to beg from house to house bottles and other charties like that. Her name was Mary Foy and she used to
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