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School: Gráinleathan (C.) (roll number 15664)

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Garranlahan, Co. Roscommon
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Cáit Ní Uaithne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 109

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    There are different kinds of travelling folk, the gipsies and the beggars. Most of the gipsies, are fairly well off, they deal mostly on horses, and donkeys, and the women help them out, for a living, they go about with a basket selling different kinds of things, such as delph, pictures, brushes, and many other things, and they would also, tell your fortune, if you would gave them money. They usually come about
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Griffin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Griffin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    98
    Address
    Tullaghan, Co. Roscommon