School: Kilmyshal (roll number 14777)
- Location:
- Kilmyshall, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: E. Mac Niocláis
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- (continued from previous page)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.
- 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(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Simon Furlong
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballyprecas, Co. Wexford