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School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)

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Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 050

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 050

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  1. Local Poets (continued)

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  2. Travelling Folk

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    In olden times , the only way that the people had to know anything, that was happening in any other district, was by the travelling folk. They would always stay a couple of nights in every district, and tell everything they heard since the last visit.
    A woman named Peg Sullivan came always to our house.
    In the day time she always had the cat on her lap and she would be saying
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