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School: Sráid (C.) (roll number 14370)

Location:
Strade, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bean Uí Liodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0124, Page 66

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    Tinkers go from house to house asking alms. They usually ask milk, eggs, butter, meat, bread and potatoes. They also gather old clothes. The best of these they keep for their families and they sell the others for the making of paper.
    Tinkers live in canvas tents. These usually set up on the sides of bye-roads or disused old roads. For fires they gather twigs and sticks and borrow bags of turf from the farmers. They make their fires on the sides of the road beside the tents.
    For beds they cover the floor of the tents with hay and straw and on this they sleep.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Liodáin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Strade, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Máire Bean Uí Ghradaigh
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female