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School: An Clochán (C.)

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Cloghan, Co. Offaly
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Mairéad, Bean Uí Ghionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0815, Page 067

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    years of age and also Bill Dolan of Gillan he died at about the age of seventy, he worked on the railway which leads from Banagher to Dublin and he often carried a bag of Wheat which would weigh twenty stone.
    Children go barefooted during the summer and other parts of the year when the weather would be fine.
    You are to throw out the water after washing your feet or if you leave it in you are to put a coal of fire into it.
    Boots and shoes are made
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
        1. shoes (~1,841)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Winnie Feighery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloghan, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mr James Devery
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    69
    Address
    Cloghan, Co. Offaly