School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 162
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Small shops were very common in every village in olden times.
Buying and selling was always carried on after Mass in every district.
There was no law against it even it public houses. It was on Sunday that the people bought the goods for the week.
Animals were given in exchange for some goods. People never gave money for goods in olden times and it was animals that was given instead.
Long ago people used to go around buying rags and paper was made out of rags. People used also go around selling delph and they used to carry them in a basket on their arm.
The old people used to say that Tuesday and Friday were considered unlucky days for buying and selling and that Sunday was the lucky day.(continues on next page)
