School: Gleanntán
- Location:
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
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- (continued from previous page)any house they meet on their journey but they usually get it in farmer's houses. As a rule they are not welcome. A farmer might keep them for a night and put them in a barn or a shed with a bit of hay for a bed. Most of them have no food with them but they get their daily food from the people. The tinkers look for tea sugar and bread from the people. The poor people go on foot, but the tinkers go in caravans. I know a family of tinkers called the Driscolls and their people before them were tinkers also. No travelling folk call to my home, very little travellers come to the district for it is only six miles from the town and the people do not buy from them.Katie O Leary (Age 11 years)
The Highlands
Glounthaune
Co Cork
- Collector
- Katie O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
