School: Cooley
- Location:
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 414
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- Travelling folk call to our house. They sell small things such as brooches, tie-pins, studs, laces, pins and needles. People buy from them. They get these supplies in shops and they get them cheaper because they are bought in large quantities. These travellers are generally welcome. They do not remain longer than a night. They sleep in a barn. The people who keep them gives them food. The alms they accept are clothes, flower, milk, tea, sugar, eggs and bread. In the next townland they always stopped in Paddy Bonners. Some of them travel on foot and others go on donkey back. The names of the best known that are alive are:- Barney Hailstones, Harry Brogan from Moville. Andy Farl, Jimmy Green, Jimmy Gallagher, George the tinker, and Lizzie Magee, Moville.The names of the best known who are dead were:-Paddy Boyle
Ned the Beggar
Peter from Trumety
Laughing Joe
Jim the crying man
Hughie Long
Barney Hailsones
Gracie the Dukier
Mary Farrel
Tom Saddler
Kat Mac Coole
Ruddie White Trout
Ruddie the Rope
Gracie Paddlety
Rachel Parke
Kate BarteThese beggars used to bring news from distant parts. They usually came by themselves.
- Collector
- Catherine Logue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballylawn, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr John Logue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballylawn, Co. Donegal
