School: Graigue, Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4124)

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   in the country shops. Buying and selling was carried on after mass. Fruit and vegetables were sold outside the chapel gate. The words connected with buying and selling were - boot, earnest, luck and change. It was considered unlucky to buy or sell on a Monday. There were monthly markets in Kildorrery, Co. Cork which are now discontinued. Money was not always given for goods, but goods were exchanged. Labour was very often given in exchange for goods

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2. Buying and Selling

   

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   Shops were not so numerous in the middle of the last century as they are at the present day. The same way of purchasing goods was carried on in those days as it is now. Up to twenty five years ago two huxters' shops were situated in this locality. One of them took eggs in exchange for bread while the

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