School: Beacán (C.)
- Location:
- Bekan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 266
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- (continued from previous page)around every few weeks she lives in an old house in Ballyhaunis she gathers rags and feathers.
Gipsies are the richer class and and are a wandering race of people and are of a foreign descent. They have no certain place of living and so they have to move around from place to place in large vans drawn by horses.
Their skin is of a brownish colour because of living out of doors. They are very fond of different colours in their dress, they also wear long ear-rings and a number of rings on their fingers.
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- Collector
- Kitty Lyons
- Gender
- Female
