School: Anach (roll number 13630)
- Location:
- Annagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Bhanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 454
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- (continued from previous page)from place to place selling goods. Goods were often given without the money for some time. This was known as "tick".
Markets were held in certain streets much the same as nowadays. Dealers in rags, feathers, and bottles and in other things used to come to the houses long ago. They still come in some districts.
Long ago various coins were known by different names. These names are still often used such as "quid" or a "pound note", "bob" or a shilling a "tanner" or sixpence, and"topence" or tropence for twopence or three-pence.
- Collector
- John Lang
- Gender
- Male
