School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)
- Location:
- Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Áine Bean Uí Chuillin

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 05_029
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- Travelling Folk are to be seen at fairs and markets. I know a man named Pat Ward who sells tins and mends broken kettles and cans.Travellers usually go to fairs such as Ballinasloe, Ballygar, and Mount Bellow. I know two women that come around begging pennies and their names are Biddy Hatters and Lizzy Flynn. Travellers line in tents or caravans. They stay beside a wood so they get wood for fires.
Some of them live in families(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggie Healy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creeharmore, Co. Roscommon