School: Newtown (roll number 3275)
- Location:
- Creevagh, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conbháidh
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- (continued from previous page)she got her name. School children called after her - from a safe distance "Biddy Ardee with a corn on her knee. She would drop her bag and say "Better than the breed of ye that came up from the Bog". Many a poor corpse was laid out by her, and many a poor pot was filled by her.
Barney the Bottle came from the Hill of Mullacrew. Barney traded in bottle's and jampots. His delivery van was a soap - box mounted on the wheels of a pram.
The Wee Man from Cross' knew as much as a schoolmaster. If the poor farmer's gave him pennies he would give them value in fine big words such as a "subatanial crop of cereals" for a field of good corn.
These people are now all dead. There are still a few travellers in this district but the tribe is fast dying out.
- Collector
- Thomas Slevin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mentrim, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Joseph Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mentrim, Co. Meath
