School: Ballyhahill (C.) (roll number 10686)
- Location:
- Ballyhahill, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: H. Fitzgerald
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0482, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)Some of them used carry pins, needles, broaches, rings, small holy pictures, and other articles for sale. They travelled on foot and got people to buy from them. Some travelled singly, while others went in families. The tinker men always had a budget in which they carried soldering irons, solders for mending leaking buckets, and broken umbrellas. They would be very vexed if anyone called them tinkers. They liked to be called travellers.
If there were races or sports on anywhere, on a certain day, they generally made for that place, where they spent the day begging from the spectators. In the evening they used to get drunk, and cause disturbance. Some of the more respectable class of them always kept to themselves and brought news from distant parts.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Danaher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknabooly West, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Robert Danaher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Knocknabooly West, Co. Limerick
