School: Baile an Chlochair, Lic Snámha (roll number 12410)
- Location:
- Ballincloher, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pártholán Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 442
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- (continued from previous page)sorry. The people had lucky and unlucky days for buying and selling. The lucky days are Mondays and Saturdays and the unlucky days are Tuesdays and Fridays. There used also be pedlars and feather men looking at the people making bargains. The people had a lot of coins at that time that are not there now. They had the "quait" or penny. They had the "towney" or "kids eye" or the three penny bit. They had the "tanner" or sixpence, the "bob" or a shilling, the "horse man" or "jockey" or the crown. They also had a coin smaller than a farthing called a "great". Whenever they gave away one of these coins they would spit on it, because they thought by doing this that the coin would come back to them again. Once upon a time there was a man going to the fair with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 24621
