School: Ferbane (B.)
- Location:
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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- The names of the principal travelling people around here are Rhattigan, Power, Green, Cash and Garvin. They are usually seen during the Summer months.
The Rhattigans are ass-dealers. The Powers are tin-smiths and sweeps. The Greens are sweeps. The Hanlons buy rabbit skins, feathers, old clothes and other rubbish. Horse-dealing is carried out by the Cashes. The Garvins are sweeps.
When the travellers come they usually camp about a half mile or so from the town. The bigger bands have caravans while the smaller ones have only huts. It is usually before a fair that the tinkers come. The Rhattigans nearly all ways have droves of asses.
If they sell the asses they go into a public- house and get drunk. The others usually get drunk as well.
When they come out of the public -house they start calling one another names. Then a fight starts in which such things an ash plant(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mrs Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ferbane, Co. Offaly