School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 154
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- A few days ago a poor woman and a girl came to our house. The woman was selling porringers, basins and gallons.
My mother bought two porringers and a gallon from her. She told my mother that her husband buys the tin and makes the vessels and they are cheap and well worth buying.
When she came she told us stories about the other places in the country and of her adventures as she travels from place to place.
She generally has a little girl with her. She told me that the girls father was dead and the mother was in a mental hospital. The children were in her protection to mind and feed them.
Sometimes two or three travelling people come hungry. My mother gives them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Donald
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr John Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullalougher, Co. Cavan
