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1. Old Travellers (continued)

   

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   in some of the houses around also. He used to sell needles, thread, thimbles, brooches, necklaces, pins and laces. He would exchange these articles for rags and bones.
   Another traveller was Johanna Mackle Roy. She used to lodge in some houses. She used to sell cakes, sweets, sweet bread, apples and treacle. She used to sell the cakes at four for a penny, and she would put treacle on them. They were fairly large, some of them plain and more of them with currants.
   Another traveller was Níoclás na csipe. He had an ass and cart. He made the cart himself and he used sleep under it in the night but on a wet night he would sleep in one of the houses in the district. He used to gather old metals pots pans, horse hair, bottles, rags, and bones. He used to wear two caps which he made himself out of rags (got from my father and uncle).

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. daoine de réir aicme
         1. an lucht taistil (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kitty Quann

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Baile Sheoinín, Co. Phort Láirge

   Informant

   Patrick Quann

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Address

   Baile Sheoinín, Co. Phort Láirge