School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- The tinkers best known in this district are the Wards and Maughans. A good while ago the women used to ask lodgings. Then three or four of them would stay in the barn for a week. They did not pay for their lodgings. Some of them lived in tents and they made saucepans.
The tinkers that travel about now live in caravans. They sell carpets and mats. They make saucepans and cans. Two or three families travel together. They ask alms of(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joe Mc Intyre
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Mc Intyre
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Knocksaxon, Co. Mayo