School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0078, Page 232
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- Travellers often pass here; some of them come in motors and others come on bicycles. They are always different travellers. Some sell stockings of every sort, laces for windows, laces for boots and every sort of clothes such as table cloths, wall paper, chair covers and suits for boys.
- There is no welcome for the travellers in most of the houses. They sleep in camps on the side of the road. They talk about their adventures in the houses. They take food with them from house to house. They ask for meat, flour, eggs, potatoes and milk. They travel in vans and parties of them go together.
- Collector
- Rita Greally
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs M. Greally
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Clogh, Co. Galway
