School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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- (continued from previous page)do not know anybody who goes barefoot the whole year round.
Tim Mulready.
- A man who lived in my district up to about a month ago was a very good man for mending boots and shoes long ago. His name was Jim Shaughnessy and he died about 21st January at the age of seventy-six.
The people of the district used to send him the boots to mend.
He had a little hut outside where he spent nearly half the night mending the boots in the candle-light. The one misfortune was the light of the candle blinded him. He had been four or five years blind when he died. - Collector
- Michael Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Slanestown, Co. Westmeath
