School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine Bean Uí Chuillin

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 23_032
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- Travelling Folk are a wandering tribe of Tinkers or Gypsies They live in tents and covered wagons on the roadside.
The men make and mend tin ware, and their wives who are great sales women sell the tin ware and provides food and fire for the camp.
Besides dealing on tin ware they have various other trades. They buy and sell donkies, genets, horse's, and dogs. They also trade their tin ware for horse hair, rags, feathers,(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jane Gately
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cronin, Co. Roscommon