School: Killyrann
- Location:
- Killyran, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Stafford
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0964, Page 272
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- (continued from previous page)bacon, money and clothes. The people often give them flour or milk or bacon or clothes and some people give them nothing at all.
The travelling folk are poor and they do not wear very good clothes. We see the children going about bare-footed in the winter -time. Some times they come in pairs to our houses, or just one person and often a band of them come together.
Some of the travelling folk have a great deal of donkeys and ponies. A great deal of the travelling folk come to our houses in spring and at the beginning of summer. They go to fairs also.
There is a large fair held in Ballymagovern about half a mile from my school twice each year on the twenty third of November. We see plenty of the travelling folk there begging for alms and they go to most of the fairs.
- Collector
- Daisy Gault
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killyran, Co. Cavan
