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Begging and Vagrancy in 1835, in Schull, West Cork, the women beggars and children leave the Parish from St. Patrick’s Day, begging in the Parish by Bandon Weavers, ‘Baccachs” before 1800, rent paid by small farmers in potatoes, Beggars so poor no Mass for 5 years as they had no suitable clothes. From Commission into the State of the Poor Classes in Ireland.

http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/10931/page/246694

Vagrancy for Co. Cork from p 664 on digital edition