School: Edraguil (roll number 11225)
- Location:
- Eadargóil, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: C. Nic Philip
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0944, Page 283
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- (continued from previous page)and sells laces, combs, needles pinsand other small articles. He carries his wears in a basket and he always appreciates a meal when the housewife is generous enough to present him with one. Gipsies are often seen in a lane-way a few miles from my home. Margaret's Lane is the name of the place, it leads from the Main Monaghan to Cootehill road across country to Ashfield Road. These gipsies live in cavarans, they have many horses and they toil earnestly at tin making, mat making. From the sake of these wares the make an honest livihood. "Daddy the Rag" is a familiar figure in this locality.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mollie Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Casán, Co. Mhuineacháin
