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School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)

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Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
Teachers:
Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 188

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    Some of the travelling folk call to our home asking for alms. They are doing so for a good many years.
    They sell a good many small articles and some of the people buy them.
    They buy most of the articles they sell.
    They are welcome in some places where girls like ornaments and they buy the jewellery of them.
    They are not welcome in places where there are old people.
    They stay for a month in some places, and oftentimes they have to be put away.
    They sleep in tents.
    The alms they accept are tea, sugar, flour, milk and a good many other things.
    Some of them have horses and carts, and they travel in families.
    The best known of them are the McDonaghs and the Cawleys.
    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
    Kathleen Devins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Castlegal, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Brian Commins
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Castlegal, Co. Sligo