Most Irish Travellers are in South Carolina and Texas, especially in the North Augusta and Fort Worth/White Settlement areas specifically.
[2] However, there are no official population figures regarding Irish Travellers in the United States as the US census does not recognise them as an ethnic group.
In January 2000, five Travellers boys, ages 13-14, were killed in a car accident; the pickup they were riding in flipped over a median on Interstate 30 in west Fort Worth and landed upside down on another truck.
A father of a boy killed in the wreck would be sentenced to 3 years in prison for scams that occurred in California, Texas, Alaska, and other states in 2005.
Pete "Blue" Daley, a 73-year-old Houston Irish Traveller with local ties, was fatally shot outside a motel near Atlanta, Georgia.