School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)
- Location:
- Formaoil (Newcowen), Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: S. Mac Eoin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 240
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: Fermoyle, Lanesboro
- XML Page 240
- XML “Travelling Folk”
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
- Tinkers come to this district. The best known clans are the Laurences and O'Learys. The Laurences are the richer of the two. They have been coming to this district for a long time. They sell saucepans, gallons, brushes, strainers. They mend basins and gallons. The tool box which they carry on their backs is called a budget. They stay for nearly a month encamped in a place of shelter. In each house they get some alms, such as a bit of bacon, flour, and milk. They are very thankful for all they get. The Laurences travel on foot. A couple of them travel together from the encampment to one place, and another couple to another place.The tinkers come around this place for the big Horse Fair of Lanesboro, the Regatta, and the Turlough races. About four years ago Gypsies came to this district. They used to go from house to house fortune-telling. They sold small tables and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bléan an Bhóthair, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Patrick Hyland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Bléan an Bhóthair, Co. an Longfoirt
