School: Mount Talbot (roll number 14056)
- Location:
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Héimhthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 179
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- (continued from previous page)179but the majority of them travel in carts and vans. They hardly ever some singly. They usually come in families or in bands. The best known are, the Sweeneys, the Mongans, the McDonaghs and Biddy Hatter. Biddy Hatter and the Sweeneys are the families that call most frequently at my home. These "travellers" call on the day before the big fair of Athleague and also the day after the races of Ballygar.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Éimhthigh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Heavey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon