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School: Edenderry (2)

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Edenderry, Co. Offaly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0801, Page 206

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    Traveling Folk.
    Traveling people still some around to our doors.
    Kind of Travellers.
    Gipsies come around to sell tin cups and cans, wooden tables, and chairs and woman sell lace. Tinkers sell artificial flowers and beesoms.
    When do they sleep.
    The gipsies sleep in caravans and tinkers sleep in a small tent or behind a hedge.
    How they go about.
    The tinkers go about in a cart or walk and gipsies go about in their caravans.
    At Fairs.
    More tinkers or gipsies come at fair and patterns, more than any other time.
    Musicians
    Some people come around and play a melodian, a trumpet, or a flute and collect money in hat.
    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
    Miss M. Gill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycolgan, Co. Offaly