School: Davidstown (roll number 9682)
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Marion G. Brennan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0901, Page 287
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- (continued from previous page)with nothing left but the bridle".
I just barely remember a family called Lanigan, halter makers, who used stop around before fairs.
Bushmen or gypsies sometimes come around. About 20 years ago they actually made small tables, flower stands &c from furze bushes. I remember watching them & recollect the peeling of the stems & the scorching to turn them. Those who come now in gaudily decorated caravans have cockney accents & offer as hand made lace & bamboo furniture bought in the nearest town.
At weddings, travellers appear at the Church where the bridegroom & his friends throw silver among them. If there is a feast at the bride's house a table is generally prepared for them in an out-house. The last big muster of them that I saw at a wedding was at Stafford's, Ballyelland twelve years ago.
Pensions, doles & cheap houses keep them off the country roads.
- Collector
- M.G. Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Curralane, Co. Wexford
