School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 026
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- Some time ago travelling folk were very plentiful in this district but they were never troublesome like what they are now.
They were very good tradesmen and made a lot of money by it.
There was a man in Wexford who was one of the best of that time and there was a song composed about him whch is as follows :-The Tinker's Song
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Of all the tinmen ye see pass
From Enniscorthy Bridge to Ross
But there's no man can drive an ass
Or work a bit of solder
Can hammer tight a bottom down
Like Cooney of Wexford town
It is he can earn a crown
Without the slighest botherii
If you only could get nigh of him
With the ditch for shelter by him
As he makes the measure
First the bottom all neatly tapping
Then the sides all neatly rapping
Then the handles revits rapping
As he makes the can.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bessie Banville
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Banville
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford
