1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Robertson

School: Robertson (roll number 12276)

Location:
Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Liam Ó Morchadh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 163

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 163

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: Robertson
  2. XML Page 163
  3. XML “Travelling Folk”
  4. 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 people who travel from place to place are called tramps.
    The tramps have a horse and cart or a donkey and cart, or a caravan and a horse.
    The principal tramps round this district are the Magraory's, Harveys, Daugtery's and Hanlons.
    The poorer people go about selling lace, bootlaces, camphor, tins and cans, and some sell songs.
    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
    Mary Dobson
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14

  2. Travelling Folk

    Share Share Post
    The Travelling folk about this district are called tramps.
    They are very poor and they go round the doors collecting money and anything they get.
    Sometimes they are selling small articles.
    The most frequent tribe that visits this district are the Harvey's.
    They do not always go in tribes sometimes they go in family's.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit