School: Tulach Sheasta, Clochair na Trócaire
- Location:
- Newport, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr Bertrand
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- (continued from previous page)Into the churchyard, not infrequently led to a fight.
Peasants have been own to put shoes or boots into coffins, to save the feet of their relatives in their long and weary water-carrying walks. One John Ryan who owned a small farm at Cappanuke, which is situated a short distance from Abington in the County Limerick, put two pairs of shoes into his wife's coffin on the day of her burial, a strong pair for bad weather and a light pair for ordinary wear, lest she would be burdened with the responsibility of water-carrier in the next world.- Collector
- Teresa Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- James Bradshaw
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 65
- Address
- Annaholty, Co. Tipperary