School: Lacken (B.), Cill Mhichíl (roll number 13826)
- Location:
- Lacken, Co. Clare
- Teacher: M. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0602, Page 109
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- Shops were not as plentiful in olden times as they are now, and most of those in the country were huxters' shops, The provisions in these shops were:- tobacco, matches, and clay pipes, soap, and parafin oil, salted herrings, sweets, and cakes called tail-boards, blacking and laces for shoes, They buy eggs, Very little tea or sugar was used and whatever amount was wanted was got in the towns, The thread was made at home as was the candles
Pedlars were people going about on foot with pins, needles, and other small articles. The difference between a huxter and a pedlar is that the huxter lived in a little shop while the pedlar was always moving,
It is said that at one time a woman by the name of Peg Sagartín supplied the needs of the village of Kilmihil and the surrounding district from a turf basket on her back
A sheebeene was a house in a country district where drink was sold without a license, It could not be in a town or village as the police might(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirtín Cotter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lack East, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Edward Cotter
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lack East, Co. Clare
