School: O' Connor Don
- Location:
- Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 064
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- Travelling folk still call to my home. The same people call often. Their names are Wards, Cawleys and Mongons and Sweeneys. Some of them are very poor and some of them are well off. They sell small articles and people buy from them. They obtain their supplies by begging everything they want.
Some of them are welcome and some of them are not. Sometimes they stay a week or more and sometimes they stay a night. Some of them sleep in tents and poor ones sleep on grass. The alms they ask are flour milk and potatoes and clothes.
They travel in vans or the women walk. They travel in bands or sometimes in families. The tinkers mostly come at Christmas and Easter and also when there is a fair in Castlerea. They tell stories and they also(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Fhionnáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonfower, Co. Roscommon
