School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 01_039
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- Travelling folk generally called "tinkers" travel from place to place still. They go in bands. The women and children ride in light carts driven by the men. They generally have a drove of donkeys, a few dogs and perhaps a goat with them. They camp in tents in some sandpit or sheltered place and often on the side of the road. They choose a place where either turf or timber is plentiful for fire wood.
They then go to the houses in the district selling their wares. The woman do the selling generally, the men do little jobs of work- making cans, saucepans, sauldering damaged pots etc. The women beg for everything that it is possible to think of but they would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
