School: Athboy (C.)
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Mhácháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 444
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- (continued from previous page)be in the town during the week used to buy their goods after mass. At first mass the shops used to be open. After second mass the people used to go in the back doors. That still occurs and all sorts of groceries are still sold.
Money was always given for goods, except when people would have butter or eggs to sell. They would get goods. When the people that would have shops would be making hay or in the harvest time, the men around would help them with it, and each evening when they would finished, the shopkeeper would give them goods instead of money.
Long ago there were more huxters shops than there was any of the large shops that are to be seen everywhere now as the people were so poor they could not afford to have large shops.
Peddlars were people that used to go from house to house with baskets selling all classes of jewelry. There are not many of those people to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Andrew
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tlachta, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr James Cassidy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Athboy, Co. Meath
