School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 096
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- (continued from previous page)The old women and men smoke clay pipes.
The old momen get drunk on fair days or at markets and then the fighting is heard all over the town.
Mr O'Learagh" sweeps the chimneys and another family called Dunne plays the fiddle
The tinkers travel from one house to another looking for tea in one house sugar in the next and milk in another flour in another and bacon in the next till they have provisions for the day.
They make camps to sleep in with big rough sticks and old bags and bits of rags and put an arm of hay or straw inside on the ground.
Eliza Mitchael traveled around with a basket which contained small tins of polish and boot laces.
Her brother was killed on the railway line and someone came to Eliza that her brother was killed on the railway line and she said "that will warn him the next time.
Billy Mitchael her father put the cross(continues on next page)
