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School: Ferbane (B.)

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Ferbane, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0813, Page 241

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    The name of the travelling people whow I know is Graham. The man is a chimney sweep. He comes to this district at all parts of the year. He has a trade of sweeping chimneys.
    the chim, The way he sweeps the chimneys is he gets a brush and sweeps it down. When he has that done he gets a hoe and scrapes the soot from inside the flue. Then he sweeps it down again.
    His wife has the trade of making tins and making flowers.
    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
    Patrick Moore
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aghaboy, Co. Offaly