School: Gallow (roll number 8301)
- Location:
- Gallow, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhuirín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 440
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- (continued from previous page)About 80-90 years ago there were no newspapers & a very few in the District could read even if there were, so travellers brought the news from one place to another.
The Farmers were always ready to give them a bit to eat or a night's shelter in the barn.
Some of the farmers houses had a big stone outside the kitchen door on which the "poor man" could sit while eating. His request for "a bit to eat" or "something left after the dinner" was never refused. The travellers knew the houses where a meal was likely to be got or a night's shelter - in the barn or on a bag of straw by the kitchen fireside.
Maureen Walker Gallow NS
Descriptions & accounts given by Robert Walker, Coole, Garadice, Kilcock, Meath.
- Collector
- Maureen Walker
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Robert Walker
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coole, Co. Meath
