School: Ceathrú Stialláin (Carrowsteelawn) (roll number 12555)
- Location:
- Carrowsteelaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Giollagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 289
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- My mother said that shops were not common in older times. The people had to go thirty miles to sell eggs and butter and to buy provisions. Buying and selling was carried on after mass. It is still practised in the country shops. People could buy whatever they needed after mass. The following articles were sold after mass; intoxicating drink, flour, meal, tea, sugar, tobacco, clothes, bread, delph, currants, matches, furniture, candles, salt and raisins. Money was not always given for goods. Sometimes stock was given for goods. Goods were often bartered in the district. The people used to give cattle as payment for groceries and for the rent. Labour was given for goods. The young boys worked for the shopkeepers and their parents got goods instead. When a person got goods on credit he would say that he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Henry Hill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Farmhill, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Hill
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Farmhill, Co. Mayo
