Scoil: Cloonsarn (uimhir rolla 16025)

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1. Travelling Folk

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   A woman of the type described on the foregoing page usually got an alms of Flour tea, sugar, bread milk or oatmeal or maize meal, She usually had a number of small little bags one for each Kind, each bag fitted with a fixed tape for tying it securely, and all these bags were carried in one large Bag. She went from house to house said some prayers for the people of the house on reaching the door steps, got her alms and again prayed for the deceased of the house and went to the next house.

   Should she arrive at a house at meal time she was invited in, The meal was shared with her. Then she talked freely of the local news. If the people if the house had relatives scattered over the five neighbouring parishes she knew them all. And could tell how each and every one of them was.

   The Ragman

   There was still another type of The Travelling Folk. The Ragman. I remember one such. His name was John McDermott. He lived somewhere in the Parish of Drumreilly, was a native of Smear, Moyne Co Longford, and was known over the three parishes of Aughavas Carrigallen and Drumreilly by the Nickname

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