School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)
- Location:
- Rush Hall, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)familiar figures on the road in those days. Sometimes a large basket carried on the arm sometimes a donkey and car with Delph and tin ware for rags, horse hair or feathers would be the exchange. These people are still in the trade buying rabbit skins old metal,feathers etc,paying you with a quid,meaning £1 down to tanner meaning 6 pence.
- Old time houses for the peasant or working class and often of the larger farmer classes were built of mud and straw mixed. The clay was of a yellow colour generally the under straw of the earth,around(continues on next page)
