School: Easgéiphtine (B.) (roll number 2039)

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1. Travelling Folk

   

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   John Keefe lived in Pallaskenry formerly. He walks around the country now selling combs, laces, scissors, broaches, needles, pins, tiepins and studs. He is a very small man and comes around once every month. He is called "Mouseen Mac". Dan O'Brien had a public house at O'Briens Bridge, Co Clare but he drank all his stuff and then he took to the roads. When he comes to a house he takes any food given to him. He sleeps in hay-barns or in out -houses.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Stokes

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyhomin, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   John O' Shaughnessy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   23

   Address

   Ballyhomin, Co. Limerick

2. Travelling Folk

   

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   Many people visit the town of Askeaton. Most of them come on foot and very few are musicians. There is an old man who come once a year and he is called "Mouseen" and he sells religious articles including Rosary Beads, crosses and many others. He does not sleep out but he sleeps with a local farmer. There is another man who comes around to Askeaton very often and his name is the "wild rover". He come around

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