School: An Gleantán, Lombardstown
- Location:
- An Gleanntán, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0362, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)locality numbers of the "travellers" keep the housekeepers busy for some days before and after the event answering the knocks on the door and supplying the demands of the callers who are seldom sent off empty-handed.
About forty or fifty years ago the "poor people" always travelled on foot. Almost every one of them was old and unable to do any work and each carried a bag in which to haul about the potatoes which were the usual alms given in those days. Occasionally a poor woman would have a small bag in which to carry meal or flour.
Those potatoes, the meal or flour were generally sold in a village or town to some person not much better off than the person who collected them.
In each townland there were houses in which the poor people could be sure of getting lodging. A special bed was kept for them and they generally remained only one night each time they called.
In those days tea was not so commonly(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John O' Leary
- Address
- Baile Lombaird, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr T. Coleman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gort Mhaoluír, Co. Chorcaí
