School: Mainistir Ó dTórna
- Location:
- Mainistir Ó dTorna, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 065
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- (continued from previous page)gypsies.
The tinkers who travel here around are: the Coffees, the Briens, the Sheridans, the Callaghans and the Connors.
The tinkers long ago used make tin-cans and several others tin-vessels and in this way they made a living. But the tinkers are not able to make anything, or do nothing but beg.
The original home of the Sheridans is Limerick and all the Sheridans of that country one graveyard of their own where they are all buried. No matter in what part of Limerick they die, their bodies are brought to that place to be buried.
There is another class of people called gypsies. Some of them are respectable and have pensions out of the army because they were once soldiers. But many of them drink heavily and smoke. They travel in caravans and sleep in them also. They keep them very neat and clean. Many of those gypsies are descended from foreigners. They are draws by horses and asses.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Síothcháin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Sheehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
