School: Barrow (roll number 11850)
- Location:
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó hUallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)they come, they want money, meal, and flour, and other things. When they some times come they stay for a night or two. Other times when a big band of them come together, and when the people of the house are not strong enough to hunt them out they take control of the house for how ever long they will be there. The ones that are not strong enough they sleep inside in the corner, or inside in the settle-bed. Some times they bring a bit of food with them, and the people of the house give them a bite to eat. Some of them travel on foot because they are great walkers. Others have caravans, and a horse or donkey pulls it. That night they do a lot of mischief, they steal hay, oats, and mangolds. Other times they go into a house where fowl is kept and they steal a hen, a duck, a turkey, or a goose. Some of them go singly, others go three or four together. The names of the best known of them are, O Briens and the Sheridans. Others come and they pretend to be able to tell fortunes. Some of them are red haired, others are black haired. The most time these(continues on next page)
