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School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)

Location:
Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 226

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    The Travelling people that are going around now do not call as often to our houses as they used to long ago. The Doherty family and the Rourke family are those that call often here.
    They sell tins and mats. People buy the tins and mats but the [sic] do not buy the clothes that they have with them. They carry what they sell in carts and bags.
    In some places the people used to be waiting for them to come because they used to hear all the news from them.
    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
    Bridget Mullins
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Boyce
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    76
    Address
    Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal