School: Ceathrú na hAille (Carnahallia) (roll number 7416)
- Location:
- Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Madadhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 338
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- (continued from previous page)roadside and fry or boil their day's gathering such as potatoes bacon onions or cabbage. The O'Riellys Cartys and Connors are well known in many counties. They usually make their appearance on fair days and to see them at the end of a good fair day they are in great humour after a few pints and can tell stories.
John Joe Ryan.
In Ireland we often see people travelling around in caravans. These travelling folk are divided into two classes namely gipsies and tinkers. Those travelling folk are continually travelling from one place to another, sometimes camping in a place where there is a good supply of food to be had for the begging but they never remain for long in the same. In this locality they camp in sheltered by-roads where there is not much traffic. Sometimes the people trade with them for horses and asses and the housewives purchases from them some house utensils made by the men folk. Some of the women make money by telling the men their fortunes. The people in this locality have nothng to complain as far as those travelling folks honesty is concerned.
Teresa O Dwyer.
- Collector
- Teresa O Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
