School: Naomh Ceitheach, Runnamoat (roll number 8499)
- Location:
- Runnamoat, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Gráinne, Bean Uí Neachtain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0262, Page 095
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- Travelling folk may be classified under two headings - Gipsies & Tinkers and in times gone by their advent was heralded with eagerness for then news could not be obtained so easily as now, and a tinker journeying from place to place and bringing with him the gossip of the various villages & towns was as useful to the folk of that time as a newspaper is to us.
He was eagerly listened to and entranced his listeners or horrified his listeners with the news he brought. The local black-smith's shop was the meeting place of the villagers & herein they gathered to listen to the news.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Keegan
- Gender
- Female
