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School: Cor an Chasáin

Location:
Cornasaus, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
E. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 293

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    Shops are very plentiful nowadays compared with forty or fifty years ago; we have five now for the one in existence then. The people had to do all their buying and selling in the nearest town at that time; because shops were few and far between. Now the farmers only visit the towns on occasions such as fair days and market days.
    Cootehill is the nearest town to my district. There is a fair held there every month, and it is carried out on the third Friday. On that day cattle, pigs, sheep, poultry, and flax are exhibited, and all the prominent buyers attend to buy their different articles. There is a market on every Friday in which eggs, fowl, potatoes
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trade
          1. buying and selling (~3,622)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Arthur B. B. Thompson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cornanurney, Co. Cavan