School: Baile Aodha (B.), Inis (roll number 13418)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 062
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- There are different families of beggars going from place to place. The most noted ones are the Caseys, the Cartys, and the Delanys. They had a great number of asses and they had no fixed home. They had nothing to sell but canteens, saucepans, lanterns and coffee pots. When they went into the houses they asked for food and the nights lodging. That had leather bags and the implements for mending things in it. One day a tinker said in a house that the way they had for getting married was that the boy and the girl jumped the budget three times. At times people had a welcome for them in the houses when they had things to be mended. They stayed only one night,and used to sleep on a bed of straw spread on the floor of the kitchen. Potatoes and flour they asked for alms. They were great to pray when they got alms and they wanted to get alms they used to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christy O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Mary O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Darragh, Co. Clare
