School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 01_098
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- In Patsy's youth i.e. about 70 years ago there was very little necessity for shops, for the people used to grind their own oat-meal and that was the most they were wanting. In those times there was not 1 yd. of cloth sold in the town of Balla for the people used to make all the cloth they wore except the cord" (corduroy)
Patsy remembers when there were only two drapery shops in Castlebar, one owned by Toby Thomas and one belonging to Murdocks. These people are there no longer. Murdock was a Scotch man.
Buying or selling was never done on Sunday, but after Mass on holidays. If you had not ready cash to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
