Travelling people are still to be seen going along the country roads in my locality. They often call at our house and some of them have done so for a number of years. Some of these people appear to be very poor and they ask for a few coppers or a grain of meal or flour. Others have baskets of small articles such as pictures, laces, statues and Rosary Beads. They offer these for sale in every house as the law forbids people to beg. People very often buy some of these articles from them but these people are never very welcome by housekeepers. These travelling people get their supply of goods at a cheap rate in the cities of Limerick or Cork and sell them at a profit.
All travelling beggars have caravans and tents of their own to sleep in except the poor travellers. They always stay a night in some house. Very seldom they stay in the same house more