School: Drong (roll number 15699)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán P. Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)them about Ireland , long ago or some funny stories, connected with her own life, and for this she would be kept longer.
Her bed was usually on a the bed floor, or in a barn.
When these travelling folk got a supply of eggs, they exchanged them for tea or sugar.
They ( never) didn't often take potatoes, because if they did, they would be tired, ( carried ) carrying them, before they would reach the shop.
Other people known as tin-smiths, call at our district. They have a caravan, or they travel on foot. When they call, they stop at a brae, called Cassidy's Brae, along the main-road leading from Derry to Moville. They make all their ornaments out of tin, which are- cans, pans, and "strainers". Some of the, these men or women, go then about the district, when they have a number(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridget Mc Cole
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Quigley's Point, Co. Donegal