School: Dunmore, Kilkenny (roll number 4331)

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   “This a story told by old people about a shoe maker that lived in Dunmore about seventy years ago. He never was called any name only Pat the Shoes.”

   

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   There is a story told by old people about a shoe maker that lived in Dunmore about seventy years ago. He never was called any name only Pat the Shoes. Pat was always in good humour always humming a rann or dún or ready to tell a story.
   He was mostly heard singing as he worked his trade.
   A neighbour returned from Australia and was believed to have amassed riches there. He did not seem to have a contented mind even though he had money go leór.
   He passed the shoe makers several times a day, and he always stopped to hear him singing as he worked.
   The rich one concluded that Pat was making money by [?] at his trade seeing that he was always singing or humming a tune or whistling a national air.
   He finally made bold to go in and inquire if he were right.
   He was surprised at Pat's answer and did not a first believe it. The

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Watt Mc Guinness

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   55

   Address

   Dunmore, Co. Kilkenny