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VAGRANCY (IRELAND) ACT 1847 - SECT 3

Punishment of persons wandering abroad, or begging in public places, &c.

3. Every person wandering abroad and begging, or placing himself in any public
place, street, highway, court, or passage to beg or gather alms, ... shall on
conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, if such justice shall
think fit, be committed to [prison] ... for any time not exceeding one
calendar month.


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