School: Sráid na Cille, Cathair Dhún Iascaigh (roll number 15184)
- Location:
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Déoirín Ní Ragháil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0570, Page 063
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- Travelling folk have a good many names such as tinkers, gypsies, pedlars and tramps. They very often call to our house and beg for alms, food and clothes. They are very poor and some have hardly enough food to live on or clothes to wear. The travelling folk are very cute and brainy. They buy things in shops such as rings, necklaces, linen, silk and lace. Sometimes they have laces and hair brushes and boot brushes. Some of the travelling folk tell fortunes, but I would not believe them. They are not a bit welcome to anybody. People shut their doors and if they have dogs they let them out to hunt them away. They do not remain very long then. They very often sleep in barns or caravans and very often throw themselves in a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Fox
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughlohery, Co. Tipperary
