School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0345, Page 133
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- (continued from previous page)every Monday selling clothes. The people were not obliged to give them the price of the clothes all at once some of them paid six pence weekly or in other instalments instead. In former times people also visited our district gathering rags. These people did not give money in exchange for the rags but they gave needles and pins and thread. People also came to buy feathers and some of them come from Cork still to buy them. A better price is given for feathers at present than in former times for they are not so plentiful now. There is a man staying in the district who goes around the (district) country every day selling clothes. He makes his living in this way. His name is Mr Grady. There is also a man living in Coachford named Paddy Houlihan who collects jam jars and scrap iron and sells them to the people who come out from the city to collect them. He obtains a good price for them. There(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Creedon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Looney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaneowen, Co. Cork
