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School: Longford, Kinnitty

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Longford, Co. Offaly
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M. Ní Thuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 106

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    The travelling folk still come to the district. The same people have been coming for over thirty years. Some of them are very poor and more of them not so badly off.
    The McCarthys, the Doyles the Hutchinsons, the Tooheys, Johnny Ryan and Jimmy O'Connor. They sell small articles such as buckets, gallons, deph, brooches and so on. People always as flour sugar and milk in return.
    Sometimes they are
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Rigney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glendine, Co. Offaly