School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 135
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- Travelling Folk
Travelling people frequently call to my home. The same people call for years. They are not poor because the year before last Pat Maughan died and his people erected an expensive tombstone over him. They usually travel in carts and vans and as they go along the women and children beg food along from house to house.
They travel in families and in bands. Sometimes they are welcome and sometimes they are not. If they come when people have the turf bag in the bog O, they do not be welcome, because they camp in the bog and steal the turf(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Miss O' Hora
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Laghtadawannagh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Commercial driver
- Address
- Farrannoo, Co. Mayo
