School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)

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1. Travelling Folk (continued)

   

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   to need things belonging to the home. Thet get their supplies as they travell along from houses to houses and town.
   They are welcome any of them that have any trade. Some of them would stay for a week if they had jobs to do. Others of them fixed up a tent and sleep their. Any of them that have caravans sleeps in them at night time. They have no food only depend on the people for food. Some of them would be thankful for any things that you would give them. Others you could give them every thing they would not be thankful. They have asses and cars to carry them as they travell along. They generally[?] travel in families, and in towns they sometimes they[?] travell in bands.
   The best know of them are Mac Carthy Delaneyes Carthys Cashs Toughys come often about my district. They don't come at any special time. People do not make much freedom on them.
   Pupils Name:- Maureen Devitt Killamoyne Borrisoleigh Co Tipp
   Got from:- Thomas Ryan Rusheen Upperchurch Co Tipperary.
   40 yrs.

   

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2. Travelling Folk

   

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   Poor people come to our home's yet. They used to be a lot of them long ago. The old people used to know them, they were people that was put out[?] of their homes. They used to let them stay for

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Younge

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs Corbett

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   70

   Address

   Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary