School: Collon (roll number 14579)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 288
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- (continued from previous page)been migrating to America, from the village, and there is scarcely a family in the parish who have not relations there.
- Farmers still collect at cross-roads, as they did in former times, to buy or sell cattle, here there came a man known as a "cattle blocker", who helped to make bargains among the buyers and sellers.
Toll was paid at markets, and collected after the market began, by a man who went round to each man on the market.
When goods were given without ready payment, they were known as goods given on "tick" or on "Strap". - Collector
- Eithne Watters
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Collon, Co. Louth
