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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

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Kells, Co. Meath
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Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 272

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    called travelling folk or pedlars go around from house to house selling little things like, - medals, cheap lace, needles, pins, slides, artifical flowers and many other things like that.
    They are welcomed mostly in the country places, where it is very hard for the country-folk to get to a town to buy things.
    In the towns they are not so welcome, because the people can get the things quite near them.
    Sometimes, people in the country take them in and keep them for the night. They put them on a settle-bed or
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joesphine Thornton
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12