School: Cnoc an Teampoill (B.), Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Freemount, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Breathnach
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- Travelling people call to my home now and again. Some are really poor and are objects of charity.
One class will accept nothing but a copper. They never ask for flour or potatoes like the old beggars.
All they want is money, and this in most cases is spent in drink.
Another class sell small articles such as collar studs, laces, handkerchiefs etc. People have a welcome for them, and invariably purchase some of their wares.
These pedlars get most of their supplies from Woolworth's, and their prices are fairly reasonable.
Bands of travellers visit here periodically. They live(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William O' Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Anthony Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballagh, Co. Cork
