School: Scoil na mBráthar, Dúrlas Éile
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Br. T. S. Ó Maoilchiaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0552, Page 119
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- Travelling people call to my home about three times a week. There is one person who is very poor and she calls oftenest in the week. She sells camphor balls and vessels and of a hurling day she sells the colours of the teams that are playing.
She buys a yard or two of ribbon in the Drapers' shops and with this she makes the colour-badges. I do not know her name She gets lodgings for the night but very often she has to sleep in a hay barn or shed. This woman travels by herself. The only alms she excepts are food + clothes.
In the Summer Indians go around selling clothes in a bag.
There is a poor travelling man in Thurles named Martin Hennessy. He stays around Thurles. He does not beg.
The tinkers that visit Thurles are the McInernays
- Collector
- Pat Gallacher
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Croke Street, Co. Tipperary
