School: Beglieve
- Location:
- Beglieve, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 086
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- (continued from previous page)There were also sheebeen houses where people could be suplied with drink.
Whiskey and poiteen were the most common drinks.
They shopkeepers sold as much on a Sunday as on any other day.
Sometimes people got goods in exchanged for some other things, for example if a farmer gave oats or potatoes he would get tea or sugar, or if a shoe-maker gave a pair of boots he would get goods in exchange. That was called boot and tich meant getting something on credit.
Friday is the luckiest day for buying and people usen't to buy if a they seen a magpie on the road before them.
A sixpence is called a tanner and a shilling is called a bob and a pound is called a quid in buying and selling.
- Collector
- Philomena Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Seeoran, Co. Cavan
