School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 095
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- (continued from previous page)pictures, calanders, lacings, camphor, Sacred-Heart lamps, cream jugs, pipes, needles, carpets, nice soap and a lot of other articles.
At night time they sleep in camps at the side of the road or down old "boireens".
Sometimes they sleep in cans and often travel about in them.
Some of them have shooting galleries in sports and make a lot of money. A lot of them sit down in houses and tell old stories such as the town work long ago.
The town and country people give the poor people clothing or money to help them on.
They go to mass every Sunday with old shawls thrown over their heads, and are liked by the people and the priests.
The priests give them a bit to eat any time they go into them and also give them money.
They are not very troublesome in the country but are in the towns because they get drunk and fight and curse the shopkeepers.(continues on next page)
