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School: Clochar Lughaidh, Coillte Mághach

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0119, Page 139

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    On bad nights people give shelter to these travellers but they never stay any longer than a night. These travelling people sometimes carry bread with them and when they go into a house they nearly always get a cup of tea with the bread. The alms they generally accept are a few coppers, some tea, sugar, bread, and meat.
    Some of these travelling people have to travel on foot but others have little carts to carry them. Sometimes they travel in bands and in families and sometimes they travel singly. The best known of the travellers are the Delaneys and the Collins. The Delaneys visit our
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nina Flannery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryvohy, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Lavin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowreagh, Co. Mayo