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Travelling people (tinkers or tinsmiths)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sss
Scope Note: Created For = CW,Use For = Tinkers

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary for a frog, 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/81
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for a frog, possibly from travelling people (often known as 'tinker's cant'), which reads 'Mola-mhogan - miolamhag muile, mhag-murra-mhaga = Frog'. Text has been scored through.

Dates: 1901

Vocabulary note relating to making porridge, 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/79
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note relating to making porridge, probably from travelling people (often known as 'tinker's cant'), which reads 'Faileim = Pot lid. Mota mod e = suadh e sua e = in making porridge'. Text has been scored through.

Dates: 1901

Vocabulary note which reads 'Staoig an admadan = mischief', 1904

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/42
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note which reads 'Staoig an admadan = mischief'.

Dates: 1904