School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- All people wear boots nowadays. About eighty years ago, people never used to wear boots, until they were nineteen years.
A great many children go bare-foot in Summer nowadays, especially boys.
Boots and shoes are repaired in Dunnamaggin by a man named Mr Mullaly.
Mr Mullaly's father was a shoe-maker before him, and his brother also.
Mr Mullaly's brother had a shoe-making shop in Dunnamaggin. When this man died Mr Mullaly took over the shop, and he is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Other names
- Máire de Paor
- Mary Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny
