School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- Informant
- Paddy Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Years and years ago before a machine was invented a little man named Walsh worked at his trade as a boot-maker. He could not sell his boots in the town of Carrick-on-Suir so he had to take them to Kilmacthomas ; a small town in the County Waterford, some ten miles from Carrick-on-Suir where there was a fair held every month. On this particular morning he was rather early so he left his wife in charge of the box whilst he took some of the boots off to a shady nook under a furze bush to give them a rub up. As he was beating the(continues on next page)