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School: Dunmanus, Toormore

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Dunmanus East, Co. Cork
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Helena Lucey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 155

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    Travelling people visit this district often and especially in the summer. They generally travel in families, on donkeys and carts, and some have ponies and caravans.
    Some times you would see one man travelling by himself and he would get lodging in a house and he would sleep on the seat in the kitchen, but when they travel in bands they camp along the road. Some of the traveling sell something like safety-pins, hair-pins, needles, and camphor, and if a person did
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