School: Ceis (roll number 15342)
- Location:
- Kesh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 346
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- (continued from previous page)bracelets and rings. They sell hand-made articles, wicker work and artificial flowers. They also tell fortunes. Both tinkers and gipsies travel by horse-drawn caravans and carts.
One day last Summer a passing man came in and asked for some dinner. When resting after eating he told something of his early life. When a boy of about fifteen years, he was present at an eviction in his native County Mayo. There was a fight between the people and the police. He fired a stone and killed a policeman so he fled from the place and got away under an assumed name.
- Tinkers are people who travel from place to place in caravans. The tinker men make gallons and saucepans: they also mend gallons(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen May O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Daghloonagh, Co. Sligo
