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School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)

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Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Tomás Diolún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0201, Page 112

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  1. Travelling Folk

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    Around this district there are a lot of travelling folk. These people are not liked very much. Some of them might be belonging to decent families but when the English took the lands from the Irish, some of them were very poor and all the could do was to take to the road. Some of them had big families and were not able to provide food for them all. All they had to look to was to go about begging for some charity.
    These travellers go about through the whole world. They have different places for camping. Some of them are rich and have vans for travelling, but others of them
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Gallagher
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Friarstown, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Thomas Devaney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Friarstown, Co. Leitrim