School: Drumgownagh
- Location:
- Drumgownagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Dominic Ó Huiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 635
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- she sold in the shop with her.The was no fairs held in Cloone in olden times. It was held at Gorthahurkey cross roads in stead.There was also a fair held in Scrabby and in Bunlahy, on 26th July.There were peddlers, hucksters, feather men, rag men, and others going about in olden times.(continues on next page)
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- Cáitilín Ní Ghiollariabhaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumhass, Co. Leitrim
- (continued from previous page)Shops were not so common in olden as they are now. People had to go to the nearest market town with their eggs. Buying and Selling was sometimes carried on at the houses.People used a lot of words when buying (and) or selling a cow. If a man promised to (by) buy a cow from another man he would have to give him some money as a surely that he would buy the cow. That money was called "earnist".Long ago when people were not
