School: Glynn (C.) (roll number 4602)
- Location:
- Glynn, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 379
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- (continued from previous page)upside-down and sleep under it at night and when the day comes they start on their journey again. They travel about in an old donkey and cart or in a pony and cart, but you generally see a little donkey under a big cart loaded with children of all sizes, a big basket of all sorts of articles, and a big horse walking behind but they all go round very happily together singing and shouting.
- In olden times many travelling folk, now called tinkers used to visit certain houses in the district some of these people still visit the houses but not as often as in former times.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Murphy
- Gender
- Female
