I’ve got photos of my Nan living in barrel top caravans when she was young,infact just a child,my mums mother,she wasn’t from Ireland my grandfather was,her husband,strange my Nan spoke really posh considering her up bringing,her family travelled around Essex,Kent and London,I was born in a caravan but my mum and dad were giving a house back in the 70s have lived there ever since,this is in Essex too,my nans family were called tinkers not gypsies or travellers I can recall her saying