School: Dunmanus, Toormore
- Location:
- Dunmanus East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Helena Lucey
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 155
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Dunmanus, Toormore
- XML Page 155
- XML “Travelling People”
- XML “Travelling People”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)the road. Some of these travellers tell fortunes and these are called fortune tellers of gipsies. Others bring stories from far off distances, and they are welcomed to the houses of the people for the sake of telling the stories.
There are a few of these travelling people and they are fairly rich, because they save what they make, but others of them drink it.
- Travelling people visit this district often and especially in the summer. They generally travel in families, on donkeys and carts, and some have ponies and caravans.
Some times you would see one man travelling by himself and he would get lodging in a house and he would sleep on the seat in the kitchen, but when they travel in bands they camp along the road. Some of the traveling sell something like safety-pins, hair-pins, needles, and camphor, and if a person did(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick O' Driscoll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunmanus East, Co. Cork
