School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)
- Location:
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 124
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cluain Fhada
- XML Page 124
- XML “Travelling Folk”
- XML “Travelling Folk”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)Mary B. Fitzmaurice, Cloonfadmore, Ck-on-Shannon, Co. Roscommon
Material obtained from:- Peter Fitzmaurice,
Cloonfadmore, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Roscommon
- There is no place you go, especially in Ireland, but you meet travelling-folk commonly known as tinkers. Their occupation is making cans, saucepans, lanterns etc. They have no settled residence but go from place to place by means of caravans and carts. All of them who have not caravans live in tents which are made of canvas and poles. They are so small that they have to creep into them on their hands and feet. These tents are only for sleeping purposes. They make fires out in the open and cook their food. While men are making tins women go from house to house begging food. Sometimes they are so numerous that people have to refuse them for a charity and then they begin to curse and swear.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hillstreet, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Pat Cummins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hillstreet, Co. Roscommon
