School: Cooley
- Location:
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 379
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- Travelling folk visit this district and they have been doing so for many years. They are all very poor. There was one old woman named Mary Farrell and she sold needles, safety pins, hair pins and other small articles. All travellers are generally welcome. They do not seek lodgings. Some of the travellers accept potatoes or turf as an alms. Some of them travel by foot while others travel on vans. Others come and build huts and make tins and then they go round and sell them. They accept any kind of alms, tea, sugar, bread, flour, meal, eggs or anything. Those who travel on vans sleep on (vans) straw which they get from the nearest house. Other "travellers" come on caravans and sell lace which they make themselves. They also sell table-clothes, aprons which they buy in the shop. They also make artifical flowers and sell them. The people who (travel) come in caravans travel in families and they come to the district in the summer months. There are other old men who gather rags and sell delph and they build tents to live in.
In olden times the beggars were more numerous.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maria Mc Elhinney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Mc Elhinney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
