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School: Dring, Granard (roll number 14292)

Location:
Dring, Co. Longford
Teacher:
James Drum
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0762, Page 140

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    There are travelling people in my district. Some of them are poor, and others are not. They travel in batches. They have horses and asses to carry their goods from one place to another. They travel through nearly every county in Ireland. They sell clothes, gallons, porringers and things like these through the country. They make all those things themselves.
    Some of them go around begging for alms from house to house, and they get potatoes, turnips, bread, milk or money or other things.
    Some of them have big wagons for sleeping in, and others sleep in camps along a sheltry hedge.
    Before Easter they go around to every house looking for eggs.
    There are not many of them to be seen now.
    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
    James Brady
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cranally, Co. Longford
    Informant
    James Brady
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cranally, Co. Longford