School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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- Travelling folk still call to my home. The same people have been doing so for many years. They are very poor. They sell small articles. People buy from them. They obtain their support from the people. These travellers are generally welcome. Sometimes they remain for a week or a fortnight. They sleep on the side of the road. They get food from the people. Sometimes they get bread and milk tea and sugar. Some of them travel on foot, some of them in donkeys' carts. The travel in families.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Cusack
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Cusack
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 45
- Address
- Baile Mhistéil, Co. Meath