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School: Cill Beathach (roll number 16807)

Location:
Kilbaha Middle, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 071

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    “Tinkers are the names of travellers that go around this locality.”

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    Tinkers are the names of travellers that go around this locality. The same people come around about three times in the year. The most commonest names of them are: Mc Carthy, O Brian, Sherdans, Faulkner, and Coffey. They go around from place to place in camps.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cornelius Shine
    Gender
    Male

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    “There are 91 people and 14 servants in our district.”

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    There are 91 people and 14 servants in our district. Stack is the commonest name in the townland. It contains very good land, and the river Anomoy runs north of it.
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