School: Monedarragh, Mostrim (roll number 7642)
- Location:
- Monadarragh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 399
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- Travelling folk still call to our home, and the same people are coming for years.Some of them are poor and others are fairly well off and the most of them sell small articles such as tin cans, basins porringers, tin plates, brooches and laces. Some people buy these, they say they are better than what you would buy in shops. Others of them deal in horses and asses. The alms they expect are potatoes, oatmeal, bread, sugar, tea, milk, soda, eggs, and Indian meal. There are other classes of travelling folk. These are called gypsies. They make tables, chairs and wooden articles and sell(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Mac Guinness
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lissanore, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Bernard Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Longfield, Co. Longford
