School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0227
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- Jack Lovely was a travelling man who travelled this locality for the last fifteen years. He was very poor and he sells nothing. He does not stay in the locality very long. He likes to get a penny or an egg. He travels by walking. He generly comes in summer and goes to the Home for the Winter. The people do not mix with him but he carries news. He only goes into a few house in every village.
- Collector
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- The Donovans are calling about ten years to this locality and they are still calling. They are poor. They sell saucepans and cans. They stay at some cross-roads or some shady place for a few days. They don't have any food with them only the food they get from the people around the locality. They like to get tea, sugar and flour. They travel in bands. Those people come a couple of times in the year to this locality. This tribe and a lot of other tribes come to the Country Fair in Ballinasloe. The people of this locality do not mix with them.
The Calahans were calling about a hundred years in this locality.(continues on next page)
