School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0756, Page 110
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- Travelling people still call to my home. They are very poor. There are two kinds of travelling people - people who go about begging and pedlars. People buy from them. They obtain their supplies from the nearest big town from where they are camped. These travellers are generally welcome if they do not call too often or if they do not steal anything or make any trouble. They do not remain at night as they sleep in their own caravans on the roadside. The alms they accept are as follows: - tea, sugar, flour, eggs, potatoes. Some of them travel on foot and more of them travel on caravans. The names of the best known of them are as follows: - McDonaghs, Caulys, Bradys, O'Learys, and Wards. The family that visits my district most frequently are the McDonaghs.If they are dealers in horses they come before fairs. They come particularly in the winter time so as to get turf. Often times they bring news from distant parts and tell interesting stories. The local people often gather around their camps to hear them. Some of these tell fortunes to the local people for money those are called gipsies.
- Collector
- Séan Mac Oscair
- Gender
- Male
