School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 273
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- (continued from previous page)on a sack full of lugger (rushes) or chaff.
In the morning, sometimes they are gone away before the woman of the house comes down-stairs, and with them the bed-clothes. In other houses, they put the beggars into a shed or a hay-loft or a barn to sleep there for the night. In the morning, the woman would send out a piece of bread and a cup of tea to them.
In some places you would see them going about in bands or in families.They are called gipsies or pedlars. They go about with tins,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joesphine Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
