School: Garrygaug, Kilmacow

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1. Mrs Walsh's Shop (continued)

   

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   of the rooms she had a grocery shop. She sold tea, sugar, bread, tobacco, candles and matches. She sold a pennyworth of sugar and a pennyworth of tea, twopenny loaves, pennyworths of tobacco and ounces of tobacco at three pence an ounce, halfpenny candles and halfpenny boxes of matches. Every week she used to take the road, down through Moolum and Kilmacows to Waterford. She used to pay halfpenny to cross over the bridge and a penn coming back. When coming home if she had only a stone weight she should pay another halfpenny for it and another halfpenny for herself, that is why she should pay a penny returning. She used to leave her own house at seven in the morning and used not be back until about six in the evening. Mrs Walsh lived until she was nearly ninty years of age. When she dies her two sons came home from England and sold the place. Part of the rooms can still be seen far up on

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Wallace

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Baile an Róistigh, Co. Chill Chainnigh

   Informant

   Mr John Wallace

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Baile an Róistigh, Co. Chill Chainnigh