School: Freshford (C.) (roll number 797)

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Freshford, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Síle Ní Mheachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 390

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    selling clothes, needles and all such things. Bobby Grace also used to go around selling small articles and he is the only local one alive at present.
    Crowns and four-penny pieces were very common long ago but they are gone out of use now.
    People used also sell goods in stalls by the roadside. They sometimes used to put a hole in a coin to see if it would return to them and very often it did.
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