School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 071
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- The travelling tinker as I know him around this locality belongs to a tribe altogether to themselves. They go together and most of them travel in caravans.
Some have asses and cars. These camp out at night and they have a supply of ponies and asses with them.
They try to barter or make sale of the ponies and asses to the people through the country. They will never complete a sale without getting boot. They are a hardy crowd and no one knows where they came from. Their trades are selling and buying horses, making tea drawers and other tin things, and buying little articles in town and selling them to the people in the country.They will send in a little tinker first and he will ask for everything he can see; and if he gets anything a whole tribe of them will come in.
If they did not get anything they would begin "giving out."The commonest of the tinkers around here are Connors, Cassidys, Moorehouses,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Clement Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garranstackle, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Mulligan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Garranstackle, Co. Wexford
