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School: Cill Bheacáin (B.) (roll number 13659)

Location:
Bekan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
P.S. Mac Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 360

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    Travelling folk still call to my district but not regular as they used long ago. There was one family of the name Molloy that used go round every year gathering rags, horse-hair, wool and bottles. They got paper made out of rags and they made brushes and matrasses out of horse-hair. the wemon made thread out of wool and they knitted the thread into stockings, shawls and gloves. They used come to the village in an old black van drawn by a big grey mare. When the people
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Mulkeen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonacurry, Co. Mayo