School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 107
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- As long as people remember there are a class of people who go around this country looking for alms.
Long ago they used to ask lodging of the person whom they visited last night but now they have tents or caravans which they sleep in along the road
They have several ways of making their livings. Some of them ask food and money and others of them make their livings by telling fortunes.
Some of them make tins of every description and sell them and others make flowers and sell them also.
They also make dainty tables out of willows and sell them to the country people about.
The Doherty family visit this part of the country oftener than any others and two of them generally go together.
They sell paper flowers home - made tables and tins.
- Collector
- Eileen Smyth
- Gender
- Female
