School: Tobar (B.)
- Location:
- Tober, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Ó Maoltuile
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- A great many travellers come to our door. They are selling saucepans and cans and looking for tea, sugar, milk and bottles. They sell the bottles. Some of them come in cars; some walk. They carry their things in a basket. They get bottles to carry milk. They have vans under the ditch. They have horses and asses. The women come one by one. Men do not come at all. The men make the saucepans and cans. They buy the tin. They stop in the same place for three nights. Sometimes they make tents with sally rods. They sleep in the tents at night.
- (continued from previous page)two shillings. They have no children.
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- Collector
- Joseph Cornally
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghatanny, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Cornally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloghatanny, Co. Offaly