School: Cabra, Kingscourt
- Location:
- Cabra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Violet Irwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1008, Page 209
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- Travelling Folk sometimes come around our district, generally in pony vans, selling articles and looking for old clothes and food. They are considered a nuisance. People sometimes buy from them. Their wares are generally tables, made of hazel-wood, bound with briar, also straw mats, pictures, laces, camphor balls.
They usually erect their camps on by-roads and they emerge from there to sell to the local people.
They sometimes travel in families, but more often in bands, and are usually seen on the approach of the local fair-day.
- Collector
- Alan Shekleton
- Gender
- Male
