School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)
- Location:
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Anton Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 84
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- (continued from previous page)eggs in exchange for goods. Then she carried the eggs to Killygordon and sold them, and she bought goods with the money.
If a man had no cow and had a horse he would exchange the horse for a cow.
They used to sell the meal in big quantities. The people who used to get the meal from the man in Meenagoland hand to be at his house on either Tuesday or Thursday. This man had to go to Derry for the meal and he never was at home only on Tuesday or Thursday.
The following words were used by the old people when they were buying or selling.
Tick, Boot, Cant
The old people thought it very unlucky to bring home a cow on Saturday which they bought. They(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Gallen
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr John Gallen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
