School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)
- Location:
- Glynn, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 377
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- The travelling folk are "as old as the hills" in most parts of Ireland,
sometimes in the country and sometimes in the town, going from one house to another asking for alms such as - tea, sugar, bread, butter, milk, potatoes, an old pair of boots, an old coat or hat, and sometimes they try to sell little articles such as - pins, clips, combs, brushes, laces, needles, holy pictures and tin cans. They purchase their articles in the towns and sell them in the country and they make the tin cans themselves from sheets of tin which they purchase in the hardware shops. When they come round to the houses if you do not buy something from them or give them something they will tell(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Wheeler
- Gender
- Female
