School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)

Location:
Aclint, Co. Louth
Teacher:
P. Ó Neill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 329

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    fair in Mullacrew after mass: and the people would take their cattle to it and sell oats in the fair; The names they had for a sixpence in those days was a tanner; and for a shilling was a "bob" and for a threepenny bit a "kid's eye". When they would get things and not to pay for them for a while they would call that "Brog" and some of them "cant". There used to be a man going around looking for bottles and bones and old rags whose name was James Molloy he would give them sixpence for any old rags; The names they had for a half Crown was a cart wheel
    Told by
    John Martin
    Knockaboys
    on 7th June 1938
    Written by Kathleen Martin
    Edmondstown
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    There is a fort in Harristown above Ardee and there is a lot of Soldiers buried in it. Garlic Gaolen, is buried there the head of the army; One day there was a football match near the fort and there was a lot of shouting and laughing going on and Garlic Gaolen came out and asked them what took them there and they
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Martin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Edmondstown, Co. Louth
    Informant
    John Martin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockaboys, Co. Louth