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School: Rathdrum (B)

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Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
S. Ó Muirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0919, Page 052

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  1. Buying and Selling in Olden Times

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    Buying and selling in olden times was very much different than now. There were not many shops long ago. Buying and selling was mostly done by swapping e.g. the farmers exchanged their cattle with the merchants for foodstuffs and many other things.
    Later on everything was very cheap and the people worked for as little as one penny a day. All the foodstuffs were very cheap, sugar was only 1d per lb, a pint of porter was only 2 pence but tea was very dear, when it came to Ireland first it cost 3 sovereigns, but after a couple of years it was only a guinea per lb.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trade
          1. buying and selling (~3,622)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Billy Fields
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhad Lower, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Terence Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhad Lower, Co. Wicklow