School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 189
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: An Clochar
- XML Page 189
- 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
- (continued from previous page)Harvest Fair Day of Ballyshannon which is held on the 16th of September is the Mecca for hundreds of travelling folk, tramps and gamblers.
An honest, harmless Bohemian Bob Devitt, is a periodical visitor. He never requires a microphone to make himself heard. His voice is as well known as the Chime of Saint Paul’s on the Radio.
Many local people, and especially children gather round Bob to listen to his weird and fantastic stories. He generally gets a welcome everywhere.
From the earliest days “travelling folk” have eked out an existence in every civilized country, and now-a-days, when there are so many charitable organisations in Ireland this class of people feel themselves, more secure in leading a Bohemian life than ever before.
- Collector
- May Gillespie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
