1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Leargán Buidhe (C.)

School: Leargán Buidhe (C.) (roll number 14289)

Location:
Larganboy East, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire, Bean de Priondargás
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 501

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 501

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Leargán Buidhe (C.)
  2. XML Page 501
  3. 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

  1. Travelling Folk

    Share Share Post
    The old travellers who visited the district long ago were Seán O Noone, John Gibbons, Hugh McGovern, John Gahagan, Tom White, Micky Miles, Peggy Coyne, Old Susan, and Maggie Shaughnessy.
    These travellers were very poor, they had no home nor any money. Micky Miles had a small hut on a bog. Any where they got lodgings they would stay as long as they were kept. They slept sometimes in an outhouse, or on a bundle of straw in the corner, or on their
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Waldron
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Reask, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr John Waldron
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Reask, Co. Mayo