School: Doohamlet
- Location:
- Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 283
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- It was a very customary thing for poor people to go from house to house to seek for a living as there was no home for them long ago and no pensions of any kind. There was only old men and women that was not able to work throughout the country. They would have a bag in which they would have laces, tins, pins, paper and more valuable articles. There are two kinds of travelling folk ones going from house to house begging for alms such as bread, butter, eggs, tea and sugar.
