School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- Stroove, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 54
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- Buying and Selling
Shops were common in olden times There were two shops in Shrove. Mrs Wilson an Mr J Hernan. There were five in Carrowtasna Peggy Deechan, Mrs Finnegan Daniel Gillespie James Collins and Mr Morrisons. There were two in Carrowhugh, George McCole and Dan McConnla. The people mostly went to Coleraine to purchase. Buying and selling was carried on after Mass. Is is still carried on. The article's they bought was tea sugar, bread, and tobacco. Money was not always given for goods. Labour was sometimes given. Sometimes the goods were bartered in this district. The words that were connected with buying + selling were loot, tick, change, and cant. The people counted it unlucky to have business on certain days. The markets in former times were held at cross-roads and the nearest towns. The markets are not held here now. They are held in Moville, Carndonagh, and Culdaff. The people who visited the district in former times were pedders, dealers in feathers + rags. The names of the coins that have gone out of use are four shilling bits and five shilling bits(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
