School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Owning, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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- (continued from previous page)For their night's sleep or several nights' sleep anything from a floor to a little of straw will suffice. Money food or clothing is always a welcome alms. Sometimes they travel on foot sometimes in carts. They seldom travel alone. On rare occasions in this district a bearded middle-aged man of the troubadour type with a donkey, a pack and a mellifluous flate is to be seen. But music hath charms and the value of a penny diminishes near the value of a tune. The Macarthys the Delaneys the Dorans and the Hoggs are all well known. They come at no particular time and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elsie Suttie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oldcourt, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr J. Suttie
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Oldcourt, Co. Kilkenny