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 134
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- (continued from previous page)were many coins used by the people long ago which are now gone out of date such as a crown a four shilling piece a half sovereign a sovereign and a fourpenny bit.
- IN the olden times shops were not as numerous as they are nowadays. About sixty years ago people were obliged to walk long distances to the nearest towns to make their purchases. In those times the only means of conveyance was a horse or a donkey and cart and the majority of the poorer classes had no donkeys. There is an account of a woman from the north of this district who used walk to Cork with her industrial produce fortnightly, which was mainly butter and eggs and sometimes wool. She(continues on next page)
