School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 294
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - In olden times there were shops in the country. The old women went with their eggs and butter and they got the worth of it in goods. They carried their goods through the hills because there were not many roads.
In some places, there were not many shops and they had to go t the town for their goods. The shops sold goods after mass. People from other parts of the country come to the chapel when a missin is going on and they hang up beads meddles and holy things for the people to buy.
Some of the people call a heppany a meak and a penny a wing. They call a thupeny bit a kiss eye and a sixpence a tanner and a shillin a bob. - In olden times there was an old woman had a shop in Sledrin. Her name was Elan(continues on next page)
