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School: Tattenclave

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Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
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Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 208

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  1. Travelling Folk

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    Travelling people are not so common nowadays. They used to be very plentiful long ago. The same people went round for three or four years. The people were not so poor that went round. Some of them had needles: others had tins, mugs, pins, buckets and cans. Some people bought some of these things off them. They gave them clothes, meals, bottles or money instead of these things. They got their supplies in the towns and shops in the country for bottles and jam-pots.
    Some people would give them shelter for the night in their houses, and others would not let them in. They slept in hay-sheds or in barns at night. The people
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Smyth
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Edward Smyth
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Phil Mc Quillan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    69
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Drumlinny, Co. Monaghan