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School: Kilmyshal (roll number 14777)

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Kilmyshall, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
E. Mac Niocláis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0891, Page 222

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    people call them tinkers. The best known of them are Connors, Lyons and Moorhouse. They sell pins, laces, pictures, tea-drawers and tie-pins. They have been coming for sixteen or seventeen years.
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    The proper name for tinkers is tinsmiths. They are noted people after asses, horses, jennets and ponies, and all classes of cans tea-drawers and tins. There usual work is selling asses and ponies from day to day and the wemon selling cans and tea-drawers every day going around from house to house. The people are of a very hardy nature because during the
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katie Dunne
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Simon Furlong
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Ballyprecas, Co. Wexford