School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)
- Location:
- Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. O'Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 258
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- (continued from previous page)down when they are moving to another place. The young tinkers travel in caravans and in carts. The women walk and the men go around on bicycles or walking.
Other men go around the country such as a man named Moran. He is an old man who was wounded in the war and he is lame. He mends harness and he goes to the houses singing and the people give him money. He sleeps in old houses and sheds.
- Collector
- Oonagh Nugent
- Gender
- Female
