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School: Hospital Convent (roll number 13898)

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Hospital, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Sr. Bernard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0515, Page 066

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    Itinerant travellers are not as numerous as they were before the great war as the high cost of living has driven a great number of them off the road. Beggars or those seeking for alms travel on foot around a certain section of the country leaving their lodgings in the morning calling at the country houses during the day, taking any alms they get, generally potatoes, flour, and meal, and needless to say money is always welcome. They return at night-fall to the village or town to their favourite lodging house where they dispose of their takings. These people are sometimes
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Jones
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hospital, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr P. Condon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Hospital, Co. Limerick