School: St. Patrick's, Crossbeg
- Location:
- Crossabeg, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Siobhan Nic an Chrosáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 233
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- 233Travelling-FolkTravelling-folk often visit my home.
Men-folk have the habbit of making articles out of tin such as little mugs, tea drawers, etc.
They also make little bedside tables, by using ash runners for legs and they bind the outside of the top with nettle stalks.
Women generally have the habit of selling small wares such as laces and pins.
They deal in donkeys and ponies. They make money at this.
Almost all of them have a caravan and sometimes two.
They usually draw up where the road and the ditch is wide.
They sometimes put up a tent.
They remain there for two or three days and then they go on to some place where they have not been for a long time before.
They come to the door and ask for alms and they accept and are thankful for what ever they are given.
Some of the most common names of these travelling-folk are Connors, Cash, Cassidy Doran and Dundon.Breeda O Leary
Tykillen
Kyle
- Collector
- Breeda O Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tikillin, Co. Wexford
