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School: Christ Church, Castlebar (roll number 14358)

Location:
Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
A. C. Ní Mhaitiú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0154, Page 220

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    Travelling Folk
    Travellers often come to the houses in our village. They nearly always have a case or basket and a lot of toys or clothes in it. They buy a lot second hand clothes together and get them very cheap and sell them at a dear price. A traveller once came to our house and he seemed very poor and he made us buy a comb from him so we bought one and we paid sixpencefor it. He thanked us every so much and said "May God spare you to buy another"
    Collected by Eva Carson
    Cloonty, Breaffy, Castlebar.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eva Carson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloontybaunan, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Carson
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloontybaunan, Co. Mayo