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School: Convent of Mercy, Athlone

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Athlone, Co. Westmeath
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0749, Page 076

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    kept busy at the market on Saturdays. They worked out in the open at Main St., the most important street long ago. Boots were very precious eighty or a hundred years ago. The women who could afford them carried them to Mass, sat on the road-side and put them on, and when Mass was over, they took them off and walked home barefoot.
    Bacon-Curing
    In the market-place long ago cart-loads of dead pigs were for sale. The meat-market was in front of the Castle, close to the most important street, Main Street. Yates was the principal merchant, he lived where Elliots are now. In his
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mary Hogan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 90
    Informant
    Mr Martin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 85
    Address
    Excise Street, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Mrs Curley
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    85
    Address
    Athlone, Co. Westmeath