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   “There was a tramp going around long ago named Tade Mineoige...”

   

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   and he used to have a game called "Spotting-the-spot" and so they called him "Spot" but his right name was Johnny Brady and they also said he was the first to know how to hang his kettle on three sticks over the fire and it is said that it was from him that the tinkers learned how to hand their pots with three sticks and how he did it was he got a stick and put it through the forks and then he hung his pots or cans on them.

   

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   “My mother told me that when she was young and going to school...”

   

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   My mother told me that when she was young and going to school that every 15th of August an old tramp used to come to Ballybunion by the name of Bill Enright and he was very holy and was a

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael O' Brien

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí

   Informant

   Mrs O' Brien

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   41

   Address

   Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí