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School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)

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Prison East, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 18_011

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    The Tinkers long ago used to have a little box in which they carried tools for fixing, cans, guns, spraying-machines, pots, saucepans, cross cuts. The names of the tinkers were Sheils Wards, Delaney. The tinkers now do not mend anything. The men now make cans and saucepans. Then the women go round the country selling them. When they (women) know there is a fair in any town they go there for it. They have a lot of asses for the fair. Saucepans.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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