School: Collon (roll number 14579)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 289
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- Long ago people used be paid with goods instead of money, If they worked with a farmer, for a few days, they got a bag of oats, or meal, or perhaps butter, or milk, as payment. If they worked with a shopkeeper they got perhaps tea and sugar.
- Collector
- Kitty Hanratty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Collon, Co. Louth
- In former times people did not go to towns to buy goods, but bought them from travellers, who went around selling or exhanging goods, some of(continues on next page)
