School: Kilmyshal (roll number 14777)
- Location:
- Kilmyshall, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: E. Mac Niocláis
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- (continued from previous page)Summer months they mostly sleep in by-ways. They dont mind snow frost or rain so long as they get to sell an ass or buy another or a pony. Sometimes people do not like to see them coming because they do be busy and they have no time to talk to them.
Connors are called the standards because they have stayed around for a long time. - In this country travelling folk are very common. To our house they come often. They are very poor. There was one old woman called Mary the knitter. She used keep knitting all the day round. Often she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellie Thumpkins
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Clear
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Ballyprecas, Co. Wexford