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School: Na Tearmoinn (C.) (roll number 8932)

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Tarmon East, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Margt. Meskell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 422

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  1. The Travelling People

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    The tinkers are a wandering race of people. Many years ago the men used make useful vessels out of tin, but few work at the trade now. They travel from place to place buying and selling donkeys. They generally park their cars at Sallowglen Wood. When they meet a crowd of other tinkers they fight, especially when they are drunk.
    The most of the women carry a basket with them when they are gong into a farm house. They are very annoying as they ask for several things. But the creatures go through terrible hardships in Winter.
    The families to be seen most frequently are the McCarthys and O'Briens. They are the happiest people in the world, because they need not pay rents or rates. They earn their bread by begging for it. The O'Briens have very good caravans to live in. Not very many are without them now a days.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anna Houlihan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dooncaha, Co. Kerry