Public Folder in Home Folder

Hi,
I am trying to minimise the data volume in my home folder as I have now moved to an SSD with less space. I spotted a 'Public' folder with loads of data in a subfolder 'Library'. Is this a required system folder, or could it be that I or another user made a copy of a Library folder once and dropped it there? In other words, does the Public folder have to contain anything? The files do not seem to have been accessed since 2011, and must have come across with the setup assistant when I moved to the new boot drive.
I am just a bit worried to simply dump something that is called Library...
Thanks for your help, Henrik

Yes, the Public folder contains some data that I/my wife must have put there at some point (I can easily remove these files), plus a folder called Library which looks pretty much like any Library folder, loads of subfolders including three that I could not access from the boot drive. I copied it all away to another drive (at which point I could access the remaining folders under Library) and deleted it from the boot drive location. I will see whether anything happens. But the last dates of access to these files were years back anyway...
From all I understand, Public should not have/need a Library folder of any kind, but the reason why anybody would have copied one there somehow escapes me...

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