School: Garr
- Location:
- Garr, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Cáit de Léis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0801, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)dead – Murt Kavanagh. There are plenty of cobblers here. The cobbling or shoe making did not run in the family of each cobbler they only learned the trade. Long ago there was a tannery here they used get the skin of cows and get it tanned and made into leather in the tannery and give the leather to a shoemaker to make shoes and boots. People used to wear clogs long ago. There is an old proverb that March borrows three days days from April – one to skin the old cow, second to wake her, third to bury her. They are called the "three borrowed days."Nancy Kavanagh
(from John Groome of Sally bog, who is 73 now (1938)
- Collector
- Nancy Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Groome
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Garr, Co. Offaly
