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School: Blacklion

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Blacklion, Co. Cavan
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F. Johnston
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0962, Page 174

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    Travelling-folk still call at my home. Some of them have been doing so for many years.Most of them are very poor. They sell small articles as pins, buttons, studs, and artificial flowers.
    They make cans and other things out of tin, and sell them. They buy the tin in the towns. Some people buy a lot from them. They usually go about in bands in caravans.
    Sometimes two or three families travel together. Some people are glad to see them, when they want cans and other things that they sell. They only stay in the district for a night or two and they sleep in tents, or caravans. They beg food from the country people, some of them
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bobbie Nixon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Thornhill or Mullandreenagh, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Nixon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Thornhill or Mullandreenagh, Co. Cavan