School: Coill an Gharráin (roll number 14865)

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   time going from house to house gathering food. Most of them travel on a cart from place to place and they go from house to house in two's and three's. They have usually news of other places and everybody likes to hear them. The are to be seen mostly in Winter time.

   

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2. Travelling Folks

   

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   Travelling Folks are usally called tinkers and beggars in this district. Some of them are travelling for many a year and more of them are not. The most of them are rich enough, but some others are poor. Almost every one of them sell something or other. The men usually sell tin cans, saucepans cans. Some of them fix old things that are broken and for that they get paid, and a night lodgings. The women usually

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Veronica Callaghan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knockbrack, Co. Mayo