School: Altóir, Tuar Mór, An Sciobairín (roll number 12071)
- Location:
- Altar, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Henry Evanson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0287, Page 274
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- Travelling people still call at my home.
The same people have been doing so for many years, the most of them are poor. They sell small articles such as:- brooches, safety pins, necklaces, tie-pins, rings, combs, hair slides, toilet soaps, shoe laces, thongs, Religious Pictures, and paper flowers.
Nearly everyone buys something from them. They obtain their goods from the local shops.
Those "travellers" are generally welcome. Sometimes they stay longer than one night. They sleep on the settle or in a loft. Sometimes sacks are placed on the hearth and they sleep on them. They do not often carry food around with them. The people of the house they are in are expected to feed them.
They accept as alms :- money food and clothing and horse hair.
The "tramps", as the travelling people are called, nearely always travel on(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas R. Nixon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Arderrawinny, Co. Cork
