School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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- (continued from previous page)hear them telling stories and to listen to the news they bring from other places. If a person in my locality stayed at a farmer's house for a night or two the owners of the house would give them a shilling or two when they would be leaving on the next day.
Another traveller who used to come to my locality was called Thadeen Crane. This man had a "magic lantern" for showing pictures and he used to charge a penny to each person for a look at the pictures. The young children used to call it a "peep show". This man is dead for a number of years.- Collector
- Simon Heffernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintogher, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintogher, Co. Kerry