School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)to buy their supply of food. I was told all these sold different articles but the trade they followed mostly was that of tinsmiths. They are welcome when people have jobs to do for them such as mending kettles and tin-cans. They are not welcome when they do harm such as pull fence or steal hay. In the Summer they sleep in tents but in Winter they sleep in vans. The tinkers travel in bands and in single families on high spring carts, but the tramps travel singly on foot. Some years ago there lived an old tramp about here and his name was McLuttery. He had some very funny yarns and here is one of them. One day when he was tramping in Tenelick he met an inhabitan of this district whose name was Billy(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Murphy
- Gender
- Male
