School: Sean-Bhaile Mór (roll number 15817)
- Location:
- Shanballymore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Donnabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0037, Page 178
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- (continued from previous page)are fond of bright colours, and the women wear brightly coloured handkerchiefs around their heads. Sometimes the men wear them also and they wear wide belts. The women are fond of ear-rings, and rings for their fingers. They are an easy-going people not like the tinkers. Usually they are good looking, with tanned, brown skins. Usually there are three or four caravans together and they have a number of pie-bald ponies, and some goats which supply them with milk. The women tell fortunes to the country girls but their hands must be crossed with silver first. They tell fortunes by reading the lines in the palm of the hand, and sometimes after the gipsey and the young girl have taken a cup of tea, the gipsey tells the fortune by reading the cup. They pretend to be able to tell the past and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunmore, Co. Galway
