School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
- Location:
- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 165
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- Buying and Selling.
The shops were not common in olden times.
The people went to the nearest town to make purchases.
Shopping was not like what it is now the people almost all lived on bartering.
The tailor would swap a pair of trousers to the shoemaker in exchange for a pair of boots or shoes.
Bartering is carried on yet such as giving eggs or butter in exchange for milk.
Buying was not carried on after Mass but it is carried on now.
Long ago the men took goods in payment for their work.
Some days was considered unlucky to buy or to sell.
Friday was the most unlucky one.
Long ago there was a fair and a market in Mullacrew.
Crowds of people went with cattle and all sorts of animals to the fair and people used to go with eggs and butter to the market.
There are some stories about coins going back to their owner. There was a man one time and he was at a funeral and he got the loan of sixpence from an other man to get a pint. When he went in to the public house he called for a pint and when he got the pint he gave the money and the man told him he could keep it for himself.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mat Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcroney, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Woods
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcroney, Co. Louth
