School: Caisleán Gael (roll number 15337)
- Location:
- Castlegal, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Ó Tiománaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0156, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)who has a grocery shop there.
She used to buy small quantities of goods, candles, sugar etc. and then go around from house to house with the goods in a creel. She sold her goods for eggs or for cash. As times progressed she had tobacco, tea, flour, and gradually when she began to stock the goods herself, she stopped going around. The people used to come to the house.
She had a stick always with her. If it happened that she sold goods while on her journey but received no eggs as money for same, she put a mark on the stick(continues on next page)
