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Travelling Folk

Abstract: Story collected by Jonathan R. Dennison, a student at Lorganboy school (Lurganboy, Co. Leitrim) (no informant identified).

Original reference: 0193/2/61

 Lorganboy [Vol. 0193, Chapter 0001]

County  The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Leitrim Schools

COLLECTOR
Dennison, Jonathan R. 
Gender
male
Location
Gortinar (Townland) 
Killasnet (Civil parish) 
Rosclogher (Barony) 
Leitrim (County) 

Story text

transcribed at

 

Travelling Folk  [duchas:4599571]

Travelling Folk
Traveling folk come at different seasons of the year especially before fair days. They sell and buy donkeys and horses from the farmers. They usually travel on spring-carts except when they go round selling things, or begging for alms. Some of them are tinsmiths and they make cans and other things, others go round and sell (and) little round tables. They pretend to be poor but many of them have more money than the people they beg from. Many live in nice coloured vans, others live in little tents made of canvas which they put up on the side of the road. They ask for tea in one house sugar in another house and so on.

Resource description

Origin information
Lurganboy, Co. Leitrim
Date created: –
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
p. 095
Volume 0193
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Máire Nic Fhearghusa.
Languages
English  
Genre
Folktale
Subject
Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)   linked data (lcsh)
Travellers--An lucht taistil
School location
Lurganboy An Lorgain Bhuí Lurganboy Killasnet Rosclogher Leitrim
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4632521
Location
University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .

Original reference: 0193/2/61

Suggested credit
"Travelling Folk"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4632521>
Note
Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Máire Nic Fhearghusa.
Funding
Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.

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