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School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)

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Streamstown, Co. Westmeath
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S. Garland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 273

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    Shops were not very common in the country in olden times, and on that account people had to go to the town to get goods for the house.
    Buying and selling were carried on after Mass on Sunday, but this custom is not practised now. The goods that were sold this way were tea, sugar, tobacco and drink.
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