School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)
- Location:
- Drumbaragh, Co. Meath
- Teachers: M. Brighid Bean Uí Draoighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 418
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- There is an old man who goes travelling around this townland. He is called Harry Hickey. He goes around selling laces and broaches and pins and needles. He has a basket on his arm.He walks round the big mountains and all around the southern countries and home again. He walks about twenty miles a day. He is married and has a house in Gibstown.Rooney
There is also another traveller. He is called Rooney. He mends buckets. He is at all fairs and is a horse dealer. He buys horses and sells them. There are very few people travelling around now. All we see is Gipsies and they come round every often. There is a great family of Gipsies. They are called Dunville. They travel mostly in Meath and Westmeath.
- Collector
- Peter Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Light Town, Co. Meath
- My mother told me that about 25 years ago an old woman used to come round to the school selling Patrick's Crosses for Saint Patrick's Day.(continues on next page)
