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School: Drumshanbo (C.) (roll number 12873)

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Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Margaret Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 034

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  1. Travelling Folk

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    Travelling people such as the Heaney's, the Reillys, the Mc Donalds usually visit the district. Those people make their living by making of tinware which the women sell at the fairs and markets.
    Unfortunately these people have a great desire for drink and as soon as they have money they spend it in drink.
    About thirty years ago other people visited the houses and these were poorer than the present tramps.
    The best known of these was "Beezy Gandly" who travelled from place to place with an apron of cottons which she got on her rounds. At each house to which she went
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Mac Manus
    Gender
    Female