School: Duxtown, Rathkeale (roll number 15943)
- Location:
- Duckstown, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Agnes O' Grady
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- Crowds of travelling folk used to be going around, singing and fortune telling (fortune telling chiefly consisted in telling the names of people who used work piseoga.) Travellers from the North used come they had "polite" way of talking and were"full of knowledge."
- Collector
- Seán Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyea, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Martin Moylan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyallinan South, Co. Limerick