School: Askeaton (C.) (roll number 2040)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0502, Page 235
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- (continued from previous page)not to sell it to anyone else. This was called “boot” or “earnest”.
The markets then were held in the East Square or in the Green. There are not any markets held in the town now a day.
On the market days the huckster and the dealer in feathers and bottles would go to the square and sell their goods there. When a person would give a bottle or a bag of feathers to the dealer, he would give them a toy in exchange. It is not carried on now as there is not any market at present.
Written by Kathleen Crowley, West Square.
- Collector
- Kathleen Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
