School: Ceann Locha (roll number 11749)
- Location:
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Matilda Bolster
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 392
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- Travelling folk visit our house often.
They make tin cans, basins and porringers which they sell.
Some of them are very poor, but anytime they get money they drink it.
They travel about in wagons.
At night they put tents on the roadside and sleep in them. They only stay for a night in the one place.
Anytime the women go begging they ask for a wee grain of tea, a cup of milk for the baby or a few stout bottles to sell in the public house.
Some of the names of the best known of them are - Weirs, Summers, Morrows Waxys, and Mc Donnells
They go into town on Fairdays
- Collector
- Matilda Bolster
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Kinlough, Co. Leitrim
