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School: Cooley

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Cooly, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 390

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    They also sell table cloths, aprons which they buy in the shop. They also make artificial flowers and sell them. The people who come caravans travel in families and they come to the district in the summer months. There are other old men who gather rags and sell delph and they build tents to live in.
    In olden times the beggars were more numerous. The majority of them had no place to sleep and they went from house to house seeking lodgings. They stayed for two or three nights at a time and they took their own food with them. At that time some of the old beggar women use to make scapulars and sell them.
    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
    Mary Mc Elhinney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cooly, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Bridget Mc Elhinney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cooly, Co. Donegal