School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 174
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- (continued from previous page)than one night unless when the next day is bad. They always have their own food which they collect during the day but sometimes the people of the house give them their supper and breakfast. They also give them a bag of straw to sleep on for the night. Tinkers usually travel in families but the poor travellers go singly or in twos. About five or six years ago a poor travelling woman stayed at our house for three days and she used to tell us a good deal of funny stories every night.
The best known travelling folk in my locality are as follows:- Paddy Flynn, Bob Landers, Jimmy O'Leary, the O'Briens, Mrs Fitzgerald and they come the most frequently to my locality. These travellers usually come at Easter and Christmas and before the pattern or Listowel races. When these people stay for a night in a house the people of my locality go to that house to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Simon Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintogher, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintogher, Co. Kerry
