School: Caimthír (Camphire), Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15129)

Location:
Camphire, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Nóra Bean Uí Chradóig
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 415

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 415

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Caimthír (Camphire), Ceapach Chuinn
  2. XML Page 415
  3. 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

  1. Travelling people still call to my home and have been doing so for years. Most of them are poor and only depend on alms. In every house these are welcome and receive a meal or a few pence for which they are very thankful. Others sell small articles such as picture frames, carpets, buckets and tin utensils which they make themselves.
    Many of the travelling people ask for a nights lodgings and sleep in a hayshed or barn. Some have food with them which they buy in the towns.
    The poor classes travel singly on foot but others have horse-drawn caravans in which they live and sleep. The best known families who travel in this way are the Hogans, McCarthys, Delaneys, Fosters and O'Driscolls. They always come in September to buy or sell their houses at
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Tomás Ó Núnáin
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Occupation
    Feirmeoir
    Address
    Camphire, Co. Waterford