School: Meelick (C.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhórdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 363
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Meelick (C.)
- XML Page 363
- XML “Beggars”
- XML “Beggars”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)houses they sing and dance. Long ago there was a meeting of beggars at every cross road and they sat down and played music and got a lot of money for it. Some of them were great musicians. When they had this money provided they had a great feast in the evening and they all shared with one another. When they had enough eaten they danced and played flutes.
- Beggars call to our house. The same people come all the time. Their names are Sweet Vale of Avoca, Old Barrett, Cracked Mag, Mick the Potato, Hairy Mick, Big Mary. Some of them make paper flowers in winter and give them in return for food. In summer they gather the flowers and make them into little bunches and sell them. They carry coarse bags with them. There is great welcome for them in a lot of houses. They stay(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs D. Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 44
- Address
- Coonagh East, Co. Limerick
