School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)binding wheels, and repairing machinery.
In the old days the old people never wore boots, until they were about twenty years, and their feet used to get chapped from been exposed to the cold weather.
Long ago all the people used to go to the forge to get the forge water, as it used to cure their feet.
In the old days the people used to get the red sparks which flew from the red iron, and they used to turn into small cinders when(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Other names
- Máire de Paor
- Mary Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny
