School: Doire an Céise (C )

Location:: Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 254

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Travelling Folk

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Local travellers are not very common around here. There are only one or two of them. One man named Paddy McCabe (Paddy the Rag) aged about sixty five years, goes around in a donkey and cart collecting bootles and horse-hair. In exchange for these things he give pins, needles and combs. He sleeps under the cart, along the road-side at night.
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Topics
1. agents (~1)
  people by social grouping
  travellers (~3,023)
Language

English
Collector
Una Connolly
Gender

Female

Informant
Johnnie Fox
Gender

Male
Travelling Folk

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Nowadays travelling folk are very common, the chief of which are gypsies, tramps and tinkers. Each of these tribes has its own way of living. Some of them live by selling cans, others by getting help from the people, and

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