School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0970, Page 163
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- (continued from previous page)as relief work for the people. Bog Road. The bog road was made during the famine and troubled times. It leads to the Bloody Pass. Close Road. Fr Bradley The parish priest of Milltown got the Close Road made in 1920. Fiords. Long ago before Kilconny Bridge. There was a fiord of sods and stones across the river. Some of the stones are to be seen yet.
- Long ago the people did not wear boots until they were up to twenty years old. Some of them got clogs when they were sixteen years old. There was an old beggar woman who never wore boots. Her name was Biddy Nicholl. Nowadays some of the children go barefoot in Summer. Long ago there were two shoemakers in this district. They are dead over twenty years. There is one shoemaker in this district. His name is Charlie Tully. He lives in a house of Burkes of Drumcole.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Tracey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Ferns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
