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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill Ruis

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Kilrush, Co. Clare
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 063

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    Travelling Folk.
    Travelling folk visit this district very often especially around horse -fairs.Most of them travel in caravans .They are called gipsies and usually travel in bands.The best known of them are the Delaney's. The alms they usually ask for are flour and potatoes. The gipsies that come here are very bad -they even drink and fight.Some of them that travel sleep in the barns of the different houses as they go along.They are always very welcome as they tell a lot of
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patricia Reidy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilrush, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Bartholomew Reidy
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilrush, Co. Clare