School: Brúgh Ríogh (C.) (roll number 10229)
- Location:
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Chonaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0498, Page 096
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- (continued from previous page)Such travellers sell their goods for cash or they barter them, that is in exchange for the wares, they receive eggs bacon, fowl, potatoes or empty bottles to the value of what they vended. these vendors make it their business to cater for the needs of their customers and even to visit and console them in their troubles and to send a small present at a birth.
The gipsies or pastoral bands, tell fortunes, sell ;ace, and other small articles. They live in caravans in bye roads, in country roads, and in country districts. They are always wandering from town to town and between times devote themselves to making of wickerwork, chairs, tables, baskets etc., which they vend in town and country. Although English speaking they are foreigners who emigrated from Austria.Writen by:-
Mary Jones,
Bruree G. N. S.
Co. LimerickObtained from:-
Mr. M. Jones,
Bruree,
Co. Limerick.
Age 47 years.
- Collector
- Mary Jones
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr M. Jones
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
