Scoil: Ardaghy, Omeath

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1. Travelling Folk

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Travelling folk or "Tinkers" as they are called locally, come to this district about four or five times every year. They usually stay for about three days every time and make a tour of the district selling cans and all sorts of tin-ware or collecting alms from the people. About two families travel together and the men are experts at making cans and tins from sheets of tin which they got very cheaply in the towns through which they pass. A famous camping ground of theirs is an old dis-used quarry on the road leading from the border to Ardaghy School. The usually travel in carts or caravans drawn by an ass or sometimes a horse which is let graze along the road during the night. They arrive here on the local Regatta Day, about a week before the Pattern day is held on the tenth of August. Sometimes the men folk go round the district gathering scrap irons which they sell in the nearby towns of Dundalk or Newry.

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   Topaicí

   1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Michael Sloane

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   14

   Seoladh

   Bavan, Co. Louth

   Faisnéiseoir

   Peter Sloane

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   50

   Seoladh

   Bavan, Co. Louth