Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Murphy's Village

Last weekend, we took a family drive to see Murphy Village.  It's only a 15 drive from us.  The article I linked to is about the best one I've found to explain the Irish travelers who live there. In the article it explains the lifestyle of the people.  This post I found explains how they build these huge homes and then live in a trailer for a year to let the demons leave the new home. 

It was very interesting and kind of spooky to drive through this neighborhood. Oh, and ALL of the homes had religious statues in front of their home.




A trailer home

A boarded up home

Another boarded up home.  The homes are also boarded up while the gypsies are traveling the country during the summer.  They come back in the winter.

All boarded up!

Here you can see a trailer behind the mansion.

A trailer home with a statue just to the left of the porch

Boarded up!

Such beautiful homes

1 comment:

luke and pamela said...

whoa! i have never heard of this!