School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)sale or something like that and then charge the local people double price for them. People are not glad to see them coming around.
- The travelling folk or tinkers as the people call them are very plentiful around this locality.Some of these folk live by making tin cans, tea drawers, quarts, dishes, and other tin things. Others spend their time going around begging from the local people. Some of them go around selling delph and holy pictures. The people buy these things in the town and then sell them to the country people and charge them twice as much as they gave for them.When these folk come to the door they will always want something such as bread, tea, sugar, salt,The folk that make tins sell them at a very high price to any body that will give them what price they ask for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peg Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Galbally, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Galbally, Co. Wexford