School: Árd Fhionáin (B.)
- Location:
- Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhoghludha
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- Informant
- Mrs B. Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary
- Picking and selling whorts is still carried on by the people who live near the mountains -Knockmealdowns
They sell them by the gallon.During the Great War the people of Clogheen, Co Tipperary, got ten shillings, and at one time it went up to a pound, per stone for them