School: Cluain Catha (roll number 16291)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Dll. Ó Módhráin Ss. Mac Eoghain
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- Travelling Folk.
Travelling folk such as tinsmith and gipsies still call at the houses but very few of the extreme poor beggars that were plentiful in olden times are to be seen now.
Most of those travellers are very poor. Some of them sell small articles such as wicker works, pieces of material, lace and other small articles.
The poorest of these accept alms such as flour, bacon, potatoes, sugar, tea, eggs or money. But others would not take anything.
They travel on foot on horseback or on carts and some of them travel in families and others in bands but(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 92
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon