School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)
- Location:
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 77
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- Shops were not common in olden times. People had to go to the nearest town to make purchases. I cannot find out if buying and selling were carried on after Mass. It is not still practised [sic] in my district. Sometimes goods were bartered in the district. Sometimes labour was given in exchange and is yet.Boot, tick and Luck’s Penny are the only words I ever heard connected with buying and selling. “Boot” means, when two articles are being exchanged and one is of better value than the other, the one who gives the best article gets so much money as boot along with the other article. “Tick” means to make purchases and not pay for them at the time, but some other time. “Luck’s Penny” means, when one is buying anything, the person of whom the thing is buying bought gives so much money back as luck’s penny.
- Collector
- Annie Kerrigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr W. J. Kerrigan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
