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School: Cluain Turic (C.) (roll number 12680)

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Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0216, Page 202a

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    Travelling folk
    11th November 1938.
    Travelling people do you call to our home very often. Yes the same people have been doing so for many years, not everyone of them are poor but some are. They sell small articles such as camphor, shirt buttons, studs and they often sell pictures. Some people buy from them but indeed not everybody.
    The way they obtain their supplies is the pennies or any other alms they get from the people they buy
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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
    Mae Rowley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mohill, Co. Leitrim