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School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)

Location:
Slane, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 265

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    until she comes back. There is another woman and her name is Mrs Tyrrell. She has a house on the Drogheda Slane road and she won't live in it. She would rather be travelling. She has a son and he has a bicycle and he carries all the things she gets. If she sees a dog she runs like a racehorse and I am sure a grey hound could not catch her. She must get a bite of a dog some time back. Long ago when her husband was alive she used to make him pull the cart to Drogheda and back like a donkey.
    All travelling folk are generally welcome to every house and they always get some thing they ask for. Most of them sleep in tents by the roadside
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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
    Kitty Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gernonstown, Co. Meath