School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- (continued from previous page)money on them".
Buying and selling was carried on after Mass and is still in the "seven day license" shops by the country people who spare a day and a long journey by so-doing. Groceries was the usual commodity sold.
Money was not always given for goods, but farm produce, labour, turf and timber were given in exchange.
Mr L. Smith of [?] told me that he used to hear his father tell of the famine days when Danield O'Connel[?] provided food to be distributed at the church doors on Sunday. - It was usual to see "pedlars" and "ragmen" go about, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Regan
- Gender
- Female