School: Loughduff (C.)
- Location:
- Loughduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0987, Page 172
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- Travelling folk are still going about as they were in ancient times. Some of them travel on foot and some have vans and horses.
I know of a family who are called the McCann family. This family go about in a van. They come to our district when there is a fair close at hand. There is a woman with this family. She is a of a very black complexion. She goes around from house to house selling little goods such as beads, brushes, combs and prayer books.
This woman tell fortunes and reads cups. She reads the fortune from your hand.
The men of the gypsies buy and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Galligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grousehall, Co. Cavan
