School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 134
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- The Travelling folk still come to our home looking for help. For the past cupple of years the Doran family have been calling to our home. They are fairly poor travellers. They sell cups and saucers, and small plates, pins, and thousands of other small articles. These travellers obtain their supplies in shop, but other travellers called Mc Cann's make most of their articles tin cans, and mend pots and lamps that have holes in them. These families are always welcome to every home in this district.
The Doran family and their comrades camp in an old Cottage in the Paddock a place near "Djouce". They rent the cottage.
Other families camp in the neighbours' barns and sometimes the rih ones have(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr John Sutton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
