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School: St Mura's, Burnfoot

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Tievebane, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seán Ó Gáibhtheacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 256

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    He travelled about from place to place. At night he would come into a house and if the people allowed him to stay all night he spread the clothes on the floor at the fire ride and slept there all night.
    Neil Roarty
    There was a blind man who used to come round and he had to be led from house to house. He lost his eye sight with a hottle noggan at a "wee still house"* through a knock he got with it. He travelled the north of Donegal and he carried his bed clothes with him with two straps on his shoulder. He had a round ball at each end of his burden. When a person was leading him from house to house he held out his thumb.
    *Where porcin was made. Porcin is known locally as "wee still".
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Mc Ginniss
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs O Donnell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Castlequarter, Co. Donegal