School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 286
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- (continued from previous page)At the present day we have many Tinkers and Gypsies going about the country selling many articles such as tables, chairs, mats, pins and needles. Most of them have caravans drawn by horses. They stay on the roadsides for a few nights. Even the poorest have carts and donkeys and they camp on the roadsides. They go around from house to house begging food and clothes for themselves and hay for their horses and donkeys. If there are bogs near them they do not ask leave to get turf but they take it. They are never short of anything they want. They are for-bidden by the law to beg but they are allowed to sell things. When they come to a town they have little articles in baskets selling them because they are afraid of the Guards. The people like some of them and they dislike others.
I got this from my Grandmother Mrs Ml. Cooney, Cloonee, Ballymoe, Co Galway aged 80 years.
Annie Dowd, Cloonee, Ballymoe.
- Collector
- Annie Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonee, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Ml. Cooney
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Cloonee, Co. Galway
