School: Árd Aitinn
- Location:
- Ardattin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 162
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- Shops in this district were unknown up to about twenty years ago. People travelled to Tullow or Ballon on a Saturday and brought home a week's or a fortnight's provisions in an asses cart and sometimes they walked for the goods. Buying was carried on after Mass and in the local shops that have been lately established this practice is still carried on. Bread, tea, sugar, bacon, tobacco, anything that can be easily carried is often bought after Mass.
Goods are still bartered in the district except by the very poor. Eggs and butter are brought by the farmer to the shop and these are exchanged for sugar tea and articles which the farmer cannot produce at home. The eggs and butter are retailed over the counter and the surplus sold to traders who transport to large towns or cities.(continues on next page)
