School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Log na nGall, Co. Shligigh
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 189
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- A good many travelling people go about the country. Some of them are selling small articles and more are asking for alms. The same people are going about the country for a good many years. Most people buy some of the articles that they sell. In houses where old people are these travellers are not welcomed, but in houses where there are a good many children they like to see them coming. The girls like to see them coming becauise they buy nice jewellery from them. When they come to a place they put up a tent and stay there for a good many nights and oftentimes they have to be put away as they stay in the same place for a long time. The alms they accept are tea, sugar, flour, milk, bacon and potatoes. Most of them have horses and carts and carry theitr food and many other things in them. Sometimes three or four families travel together. The best known families that travel in this district are the Cawleys and the Mac Donaghs.
- Collector
- Maire Devins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Log na nGall, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mr John Devins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Log na nGall, Co. Shligigh
