School: Westland (roll number 8428)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs. E. J. Roberts
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0707, Page 062
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Westland
- XML Page 062
- XML “Travelling Folk”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- All down the ages travelling folk have called to people's homes'.
They always beg the people to buy small articles from them such as jewelery, paper flowers, and delph which they buy in the towns, and they sell porringers and gallons which they make themselves. And some of the poorer ones beg for tea, sugar and flour which they make into bread.
They usually travel in families and lodge one night at a place, but if it happens that a band lodge at a place, they usually let their horses or asses in on peoples' land, and lodge at the place till they are hunted away.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr C. Shekleton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Maio, Co. Meath
