School: Collon (roll number 14579)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 290
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- (continued from previous page)these travellers are still seen.
Sometimes goods were exchanged for hay or horsehair.
other coins which are not now in use, but which were used then were, the fourpenny and tenpenny bits.
People called "rag-men", bought old rags from the people, and paid fivepence per pound for them, or took them in exchange for bootlaces, spools of thread, or other useful articles, this exhange was called "bartering".
- When a person hears the cuckoo for the first time he says "that we may be alive this time next year."
When lying in bed before going to sleep say:-"I lay my body down to sleep(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eithne Watters
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Collon, Co. Louth
