School: Ballyragget Convent
- Location:
- Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0868, Page 048
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- Travelling folk call to our homes very often. The majority of them have been coming for a number of years. They come periodically; some every two or three weeks and others about three times a year. Some of them carry a case containing small goods such as studs, pins, needles and others sell ballads. People living at a distance from the town, like to see them coming. They usually obtain their supplies in the towns they pass through. Usually they sleep at a farm-house. Sometimes they sleep in a barn or in hay. The best known travelling folk in this district are Delaneys, Doyles, and Donovans. Some gypsies tell fortunes. Larry Phelan, a travelling man, used to tell stories in a farmhouse where he used stay. At Christmas most of the families come.
- Informant
- Mrs Ivory
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ballyconra, Co. Kilkenny
