School: Killyconnan (C.)
- Location:
- Killyconnan, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: M. Ní Ghabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)are glad to give them some alms.
It is quite a common sight to see camps pitched here and there at the cross-roads and these are called gypsies in fact the are not gypsies only poor people who live in a wanting manner even the are persuasive in their efforts to sell their goods.
The majority of people who go about on foot never take lodging as long ago, there were abuses long ago ; matches were dropped in straw, fires started; sometimes things were missing in the morning and so the good old hospitality was denied them.
