School: Gort na Gaoithe (roll number 14218)
- Location:
- Windfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: M. Ó Lócháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0046, Page 0079
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- In olden times shops were not as plentiful as they are now.
People had not always to go to the nearest town to shop as there were some local shops. Buying (and selling) was carried on after Mass. Labour was very often given instead of money. Eggs were nearly always given when labour was not.
Goods were never bartered in this district.
Sometimes pedlars come to my district for feathers, rags and horse-hair. Sometimes they give money for them, and if they do not they give glass-ware. They were more common in former times.
The words "bout" and "tick" are used in buying and selling.
Bout is giving a little money with something swopped.
Tick is giving goods on credit.
Several different coins are used in this district, they are, halfcrown and crown. Four-penny-bit, half-soverin and soverin are gone out of use.
- Collector
- Kathleen Conway
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Newvillage, Co. Galway
