School: Borris (C.)
- Location:
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Loinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 526
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- (continued from previous page)the farmer paid him in kind also. It was not uncommon for a peasant woman to work a couple of hours per day on a farm and get milk and butter for her family as compensation for her labour.
Many a tramp earned a good dinner from a farmer by working for an hour or two.
In former times markets were held at cross roads or on the village green or square. We still have a weekly market on Dalton's square & during the Turkey & frocken seasons, markets are held at Kilgraney cross, Ballymurphy cross & the cross of skeogh.
Locally the pound is called a quid; the shilling, a bob; the sixpence, a tanner; the thrupenny bit, a kid's eye; and the penny, a copper. The following coins now seem to be extinct: the sovereign; and the half sovereign; the crown, the four-shilling piece & the silver four penny bit.
- Collector
- Kitty Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Borris, Co. Carlow
