School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 08_050
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- (continued from previous page)those travellers are very poor especially those who drink and some are very well off, because the well off travellers make their own things, namely mats, baskets, or brushes, and sell them at a reasonable price to the farmers and others. Some of them will take anything in the way of alms, others will only take money. In Summer they camp out in caravans and tents in lonely lanes and by-roads.
In Winter they look for lodgings in houses or(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Other names
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Maureen Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Kellsborough, Co. Kilkenny
