School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Drumlease, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Diolún
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- (continued from previous page)life to any other position in life.The people of this locality do not like to get into a fight with any of these wandering folk, because if they do, the travelling folk will come and steal all their property that night.There is a well known trick in the district for one of the tinkers to come to the house and keep the people of the house in chat while another one of the tinkers is stealing hay potatoes or turf or what ever they may have an eye on.Here is a true story about tinkers. In this vicinity there was a woman who had a "meiceal" of men working. She(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickacroghery, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Bee Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickacroghery, Co. Leitrim