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School: Lisdoonan

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Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
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S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 306

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    years ago in the Home in Blayney at the extraordinary age of one hundred and fourteen years.
    Philip the Whistler was so called because he was always whistling and even when he would start whistling and he got his nickname as a result.
    Paddy Bwee was another poor man and he used to collect rags and would give pins and boot laces for them.
    Miles Courtney was another beggarman but he would not come to our house and my father did not know much about him. He was noted for his great bulgy pockets which contained a wonderful variety of things.
    There are tramps who go around nowadays and when they come to a house they stand begging and when they get what they ask for they ask for
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ena Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cormoy, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Owen Mc Cabe
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cormoy, Co. Monaghan