School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)

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1. Travelling Folk (continued)

   

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   Jimeen Montgomery was a Trick of the loop also. When he wanted to call the people round him he said "sguaibín here." Alfien Price was a Trick of the Loop also. He lived in Ballygar. Mike Beirne used to sing and the people gave him food. He travelled on foot. "L "Lady Fallon" went begging and he had always his hand over his eyes. He travelled on foot.

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2. Travelling Folk

   

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   Another beggar woman was a Miss Bodkin or as she was better known as the Feather Womaneen. She used to carry her bed of feathers about with her on her back, and her bed-clothes in two buckets. She was very clean and neat in her person. From the house in which she stayed for the night she would not take any bed-clothes lest they would not be clean. She used her own.

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