School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

Location:
Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 423

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  1. Some people come to the houses of this district and stay there for the night sometimes, and they also sell small articles such as pins They used to come into the farmers' and ask him could he sleep in the hay shed for the night, the farmer would tell him that he could stay there for the night and then he would go away in the morning and sell small articles again for the day and do the same thing for the week and he would go away then to another house for the week again, There used a crowd of tinkers come to William Delaney to ask him could they stay for the night and they would stay there for the night in the hay-shed and go away in the morning. These travelling people are not really tinkers they get their food free from the people and then they give some small articles to the people for giving them food. They never stays in any house for. about one week. When they leave one house they go from one house in the
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cronavone, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Michael Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Cronavone, Co. Tipperary