School: An Páirtín
- Location:
- Parteen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ciarán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 487
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- The best known travelers in our district are tinkers and gypsies . The gypsies travel in a caravan drawn by horses, they make wicker furniture and sell it to the people they also tell fortunes and sell lace.
The tinkers come around before gig fairs in Limerick they put up in a bye road and sleep in tents under the cars in which they travel they only remain for a few days until the fair is over they sell or exchange old asses or horses and beg their food from the people in the neighbourhood.
Gypsies and tinkers go in bands while others go in families. Some sleep in hay barns and others in caravans they have no money for to buy food and they beg for pennies and pieces of food.
