School: Kilmyshal (roll number 14777)

Location:: Kilmyshall, Co. Wexford
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people call them tinkers. The best known of them are Connors, Lyons and Moorhouse. They sell pins, laces, pictures, tea-drawers and tie-pins. They have been coming for sixteen or seventeen years.
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The proper name for tinkers is tinsmiths. They are noted people after asses, horses, jennets and ponies, and all classes of cans tea-drawers and tins. There usual work is selling asses and ponies from day to day and the wemon selling cans and tea-drawers every day going around from house to house. The people are of a very hardy nature because during the

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