School: Bearna na Gaoithe (B.) Thomastown (roll number 5697)
- Location:
- Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Haonghusa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 180
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- There are many different kinds of travelling folk the tinkers sleep out in a camp and in the day they go from place to place and house to house. The most plentyfull family of those travellers is the Delaneys, they lodge on the road sides. There is one old man among them, he is loved by everrybody when he comes and sit down by the fire you would like to be listening to him telling stories about ghosts and fairies and all that he met he could tell you about your friends and all who died and all who are sick. They come at a certain time of the year at the races in Blackbog. When they come they are welcomed by the people of the house they generly stay one night. All those people that come around are very poor they come looking for alms they only take money.
- Collector
- William Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cottrellstown, Co. Kilkenny
