School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- Collector
- Mary Bourke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cullahill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Patrick Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cullahill, Co. Tipperary
- Travelling people still call to my home, the same people have been coming for many years. Some of them are very poor only depending on what they get from the people and more of them are rich. They sell small articles such as knives, spoons, table forks, pins needles, brooches, brushes, combs and several other useful articles. The people buy from them and they are welcome when they come. They get their meals from the people and others bring food with them. They lodge(continues on next page)