School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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- Travelling folk often come to our house. The same tinkers have been coming for the past few years. They are not poor as they can buy horses and asses. The women sell small articles and the men sell carpets and mats and small tables. They sell mostly all these articles. They sleep in tents and caravans. Some of them bring food with them, while the others beg for food. Sometimes families go by themselves, and others go in bands. Most of the tinkers have spring carts. There are many bands of tinkers in this locality the McDonagh's,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Leyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Leyland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon