School: Mohill (2) (roll number 8673)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Éamonn Bairéad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 197
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- (continued from previous page)crossed for a short cut. The shopkeepers sold things after Mass to the people. They sold groceries. When two men are making a bargain another man comes and said "Divide what is between you" and the seller says "Will you break this mans word. When they have the deal made, the seller, gives a luck penny to the jobber and they bid each other good luck and the jobber spits on his luck penny for luck. When a person is buying anything in a shop they say "give me Doora" which means "Give me good measure". When you go into a new shop you should not go out with "hamselling" them which means putting luck on them. Giving farm produce for groceries was called bartering. It is unlucky to sell anything on May Eve. If you buy a cow on new years day you will have to be buying cattle all the year round. Tom Donnlan and Notely and Tommy Luke are pedlars. Donnlan sells toilet soap, Luke sells sweets and begs rags, Notely buys horse hair, feathers, rags, and scrap iron. Old coins which are gone(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Haslip
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Tom Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Trean, Co. Leitrim
