School: Doire an Céise (C )

Location:
Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 254

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  1. Local travellers are not very common around here. There are only one or two of them. One man named Paddy McCabe (Paddy the Rag) aged about sixty five years, goes around in a donkey and cart collecting bootles and horse-hair. In exchange for these things he give pins, needles and combs. He sleeps under the cart, along the road-side at night.
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  2. Nowadays travelling folk are very common, the chief of which are gypsies, tramps and tinkers. Each of these tribes has its own way of living. Some of them live by selling cans, others by getting help from the people, and
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philomena Mc Phillips
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Phillips
    Gender
    Male