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 446

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 446

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    think that they would have great luck with the animals.
    There used be "pedlars" going around gathering bottles, and rags and feathers and they used give pins, and needles , and hair pins , and ballads, in exchange. The people called a shilling a bob and a sixpence a "tanner" and a pound a "quid" .They used have markets for reeds that time. They had to "scatch" the rye and the straw and then make sheaves of it and then sell it by the "barth". There used be twenty sheaves in the "barth'
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trade
          1. buying and selling (~3,622)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Sheehy
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Sheehy
    Gender
    Male