School: Cill Uachtair
- Location:
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ní Charraig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1024, Page 161
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- Shops were not very common in olden times. People had to go to the nearest town to make purchases.
Buying and selling were carried on after Mass, but this custom is not carried on now.
Money was not always given for goods, but labour was given in exchange.
Words connected with buying and selling in former times were "boot", "tick", "change" and "cant"
It was supposed to be very unlucky to sell anything on a Saturday.
Markets were held in towns an villages in former times.
There are some accounts of hucksters, pedlars, and dealers in feathers and rags, who visited these districts. It is very seldom they come now-a-days.
In former times people used to call a sixpence a "tanner", a shilling was called a "bob" and a three penny bit was called a "kid's eye".
Some coins are gone out of date, such as :- fourpenny bit, a four shilling piece,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Humphrys
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullyhumphry, Co. Monaghan
