School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)
- Location:
- Blackwater, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 146
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- Mr. Furlong knew a travelling man called Tom 'Trot' who never wore boots to his knowledge. He was generally seen with a Máilín of potatoes and always in a kind of Sodar.Mr Furlong also remembers James Daly, a neighbour here, dead twenty years using the ritual 'Muc Avoy' in throwing out water at night.There were TEN shoemakers in the parish when Mr. Furlong was a young man - sixty years ago. They wereTwo Bolyes (?) Ballina
Two Dempseys Ball alley(?)
Denis Kehoe Ballintubber
Paddy Wafer do.
Ml. White Garryadda
Tom Rossiter do.To day there is none.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Furlong
- Gender
- Male
