School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)

Location:
Killeen, Co. Longford
Teacher:
S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 434

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 434

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  1. Generally travelling people come to our homes and they were always coming but very seldom the same batch comes.
    Some are poor and others make money on making things and selling them.
    Some make poringers, basins, and other things and go out and get sale for them.
    Gipseys make lace and baskets and mats made from straw and people buy them and they also tell fortunes and get money.
    The camp along ditches on sheltering roads in carriages and others put up in a tent.
    When travelling some go on foot and others on vans and carriages and in famillies.
    Alms they get are a few coppers and a piece of bread and some are very mean and others are not to mean. and they always look mean and shabby in dress and still are very well off.
    The best known of them are they joyces and Delneyes and many others not much good.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Molly Monaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballymore, Co. Longford