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School: Empor (roll number 941)

Location:
Emper, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 070

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    Travelling people still call to our home, and they have been doing so for a number of years.
    These travelling people are not very poor.
    They sell small articles, some deal in horses, and donkeys, and more of them are tinsmiths, and the tinsmiths also go round with baskets selling ornaments, saucepans and cans. The people buy these articles from them.
    These travellers are always welcome in this locality, and they always stayed for three or four days.
    They sleep in camps on
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Glynn
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Farrell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    90
    Address
    Emper, Co. Westmeath