A black and white photograph of a newly built halting site at Forge Hill, Cork showing the tarmac bays for caravans. In the centre of the image there are four Traveller children with a dog
A black and white photograph of Traveelrs at the newly built site in Ballyvolane in 1973. This would be what would be now called the "old Spring Lane" site
A black and white photograph of Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr, T.J. O'Sullivan, visiting Mrs McDonald and her family at the Black Ash Traveller campsite on the extremities of a dump in the Ballyphehane area.
A black and white photograph of Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr, T.J. O'Sullivan and members of the Cork Itinerant Settlement Committee, Miss D. O'Connor and Miss F. Finn talk to Mrs Mary O'Donoghue at the door of her dwelling at Goulding's Glen, Cork.
Photograph of the first City Council Halting site.
Due to the substandard construction, Traveller families did not stay on the site long. Notice the bare block walls
This film presents a unique look into a rarely seen, and slowly vanishing, part of the contemporary Traveller lifestyle – the racing and husbandry of horses by the boys and men of the Spring Lane halting site. Directed by Noel Twomey, "Tales of the…