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School: Dromcollchoille (C.)

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Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
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Caitlín, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 225

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    Travelling Folk
    Travelling people are still going around from town to town, and beg along the road as they go along.
    The same people are coming around, and their generations for fifty years. They are very poor and they sell small articles and some people buy from them.
    They buy their supplies in the shops as they come along.
    There is no welcome for them.
    They sometimes stay for a week around the town and they camp along the road and they sleep in the camp. They have the food that they bed. The alms, that they accept, are food and old clothes, they would prefer to get money or new clothes if they got them.
    They travel in vans drawn by horses and asses.
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    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
    Bridie O Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    B. E. Sullivan
    Age
    70
    Address
    Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick