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School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)

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Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Tomás Diolún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0201, Page 231

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    The Travelling Folk
    Around this district there are a lot of tramps. The build their camps in old roads, or any other place. These people build their camps from old canvas and old clothes. Some of these thinkers make flowers and sometimes they buy things in the shops and they go around the country selling them. They go from house to house begging bread, butter, meat, potatoes and other kinds of food. Some of the men buy tin and make cans, buckets, kettles and pots and a lot of other things, and they go around the country selling them. There was a man one time and the people used to call him ''forty coats'' because he used to wear so many
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lily Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Friarstown, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    William Loughlin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Friarstown, Co. Leitrim