School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)

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1. Travelling Folk

   

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   1. Travelling folk still come to our door. They have been doing so for over a century. Some of them are very poor but others are well-off. They remain but are right in a peace. They sleep in tents or caravans and beg food from the people. They travel in families. Some of the best known are Maire Lohan, Maggie Cawley, They used to tell the people about the Great War for their brothers were fighting in it.

   2. Many years ago a one-legged man used to call at a neighbouring house. He had a little box on two wheels In the box he had a gramophone and bed-clothes. He would play the gramophone wherever he would get lodgings.

   3. A family named Reilly have been coming to our house for over six years. Sometimes they stay for a week or a fortnight. They usually have food with them. They come in October for the station at Ciaran's well. They used sing songs and tell stories for us every night. The neighbours used gather in to hear them.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Nic Lochlainn

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballynabanaba, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Martin Kenny

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilconnell, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Patrick Sweeney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Fohanagh, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Peter Barrett

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Doon Lower, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Thomas Cahill

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lisnascreena, Co. Galway

   Informant

   John Mc Loughlin

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballynabanaba, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Thomas Kenny

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilconnell, Co. Galway