School: St Fiachra's, Ullard, Borris, Co. Carlow (roll number 3459)
- Location:
- Iolard, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghuidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 240
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- (continued from previous page)call "Jacks." There are no walls now because the clay taken from the New School covered them up. A man named Jack Lennon was the best tenant who lived there. This man used to make boots for the people of the district. He used to walk to fairs of Graignamanagh, Borris, Goresbridge, Carlow, Kilkenny and as far as Kildare to sell boots.
In our house all boots of the household are mended by my father.
Long ago John Hennesy and Pat Burtchaell used to wear clogs.
Long ago an old man who lived in a little house near Malone's used to make leather.
One night when he was making a pair of boots for one of the neighbours(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gráig na Manach, Co. Chill Chainnigh
