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School: Dún-dá-radharc (roll number 15009)

Location:
Dún Dea-radhairc, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Siobhán, Bean Uí Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0337, Page 092

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    Tramps often call to our door. A few call regularly, while others are only casual visitors. These are the names of the regular callers. Tom Molone, a respectable traveller from Kerry and Jim Ryan from Tipperary. These men do not ask for alms. They usually call at dinner-time, or tea-time. We invite them to join us and they regale us with stories of their adventures, while the meal is in progress. They give us news of our friends in Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick.
    Two remarkable wandering families are known in this district the O'Driscolls and the Coffeys. The O'Driscolls are tin-smiths and the Coffeys are sweeps. They travel in caravans and halt at convenient places.
    Many of the people, who travel in companies have small articles for sale. These are some of the things they sell:- Pictures, crockery, hardware, little tables, and reels of thread and needles. They buy these
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Ó Scríbhín
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Drom Réidh, Co. Cork