School: Clochar na Trócaire, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)
- Location:
- Ballymahon, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Sr. M. Clement
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 493
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- Tinkers are divided into two classes, the resident tinkers and the travelling tinkers. About the latter I intend to write. The travelling tinkers travel Ireland in bands or tribes. Very often they move around in a tribe of fifty to sixty, comprising men women and children. They are generally about a town or village some days before a fair, the women-folk getting their wares such as pipe-lids, tin-cans, saucepans, strainers, boot-laces and hair-pins. The men folk, are no less busy than the women. They devote a lot of their time brushing up old asses trying to make them look young, administering drugs or squelling-gennets [?], and remodelling lame and disabled horses. The women scatter about the fair selling their wares and begging pennies. The men assemble in the market-square where they try to affect a sale for some of their animals. It is great fun listening to them make a bargain. They shout and talk very loudly.
- Collector
- Kate Fagan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ballybranigan, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Fagan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballybranigan, Co. Longford
