School: Scoil Naomh Eoin, Bréachmhuigh (roll number 13781)

Location:
Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
A.M. Mac Taidhg
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    anything while others are never satisfied. If people stay out late at night people sometimes think that they are tinkers or Gipsies and they put the dogs after them and run them. The tinkers are very good at playing music, and many of them go about playing pipes, fiddles, and others things. There is no place strange to these people they could travel anyplace and would not go astray. Them people are never short of anything if they do not get it when they beg, they will beg money to buy it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maighréad Ní Neachtáin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Tomás Ó Neachtáin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Breaghwy, Co. Mayo