School: Askamore (roll number 15675)
- Location:
- An Easca Mhór, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Margaret McGrath
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 103
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- Shops were not as plentiful in olden times as they are nowadays. People went to the nearest town to buy goods and the nearest town would be twenty miles away or more. Buying and selling were carried on after Mass and it is still practised in some places.Money was not always given for goods, sometimes vegetables or other goods were given in exchange. The markets were held at a crossroads or at a farmer's house in olden times.Pedlars used to visit the district in former times to exchange delph for feathers and rags or old horse hair. The rags were used in making paper and the feathers were used to make matresses, pillows and such like. The horse hair was used to make horse harness.
- Collector
- Annie Reddy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Easca Mhór, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mr Robert Gilbert
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Easca Mhór, Co. Loch Garman
