School: Gaigue (B.), Ballinamuck (roll number 13305)
- Location:
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peter Duignan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 100
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- Patrick O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Edward Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
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“The first pair of boots Edward Flynn of Gaigue got was a pair of his mothers and that year he walked to the harvest in Dublin.”
The first pair of boots Edward Flynn of Gaigue got was a pair of his mothers and that year he walked to the harvest in Dublin. He was about sixteen years of age at that time. He walked for eleven years to the harvest in Dublin after.
