School: Eanach Dubh (C.) (roll number 13657)
- Location:
- Annaduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Mary Shanley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)is still to be seen.
- Those travelling people still go around from place to place. They are called tinkers now. Friends of these people have been going around for years and years. They are very poor just living on whatever alms they get from the people.
They sell all kinds of small articles. They buy those things in the shops in the towns. Sometimes the people have welcome for the tinkers and then again they don't like them. If they get a warm and comfortable place they stay a week or more but sometimes they stay only one night. They have camps which they make themselves and in these they sleep. They have no food with them only just depending on the people. The people give them bread and flour and all kinds of eatables.(continues on next page)
