School: Redwood (roll number 11912)
- Location:
- Redwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máighréad Nic Chormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 260
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- Shops not common here in olden time
An old shop was kept where Quinlans now live, near Redwood Church. Three old men lived there. Called the Hucksters Shop.
Buying & selling was carried on after Mass on Sundays & holidays. This is still practised
Labour is often given in exchange for goods.
Buying without paying cash is called, getting a thing on "strap", "putting it on the slate" or getting it on "Tick"
Hucksters, hawkers, and pedlars come round the place still - They buy feathers, horse-hair, rabbit-skins, rags, and some of the better-off hawkers buy wool. Rabbit skins sell at 1 1/2d each
Horse-hair at 6d a lb.
"Cleaning the slate" is a term used when a bill is paid up in a shop.
