School: Sráid na Cathrach (B.) (roll number 8850)
- Location:
- Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0622, Page 394
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- (continued from previous page)As most of things in use in the country were home made. the towns were made up of back smiths nailers, weavers, tailors carders hacklers tin smiths etc.
In a fairly large town there would be about twenty shops of any note with only about four public houses.
There were fish stalls in the street bread, butter, milk, eggs, boiled meat and many other things were sold in these stalls.
The stall keepers or huxters had fires in the open so that they could cook meat.
There was tea supplied then it was used very little in Ireland.
Hence there were very few grocers Confectioner also were scarce but there was sweets and candy manufactured in every town & village.
There were no vans no(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Martin Howard
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
