School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 310
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- (continued from previous page)way on the island where Robinson Crusio caught a wild man and he often swore he saw the mermaid and he would have our house full of people at night listening to him. There was an old man who was called "needles and Pins" because he would say at every house "any bottles for needles and pins". He was a very good man and he would not take anything without the woman of the house giving it. In this district the word tramp is applied to those who only call to a house when passing, but those referred to as beggarmen stay in the same district always. Gypsies camp in different places and they put up in sheltery places usually near a well or where certain kinds of wood is to be found which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Finegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnagunnion, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Burns
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 100
