School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Kilmaganny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 347
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- (continued from previous page)for a good many years, but there was never a market held there. The nearest marketplace was Callan where Tuesday was fowl-market day & Saturday, the general market-day.
Generally, money was given for goods. People said it was unlucky to transact business on Sunday.
Jimmy Morrisey was a rag-man who visited the district. He was called the "Game Fairy": He gathered rags, bags, bones & bottles.
- Shops were not common. Buying & selling was carried on after Mass & the articles bought & sold were boots & stockings, shirts, suits &c. The sellers were called "Hawbers" & "Pedlars" They gave clothes in exchange for rags, bones, feathers & bottles.
Years ago a four penny-piece was used.
A man would work two days for a shirt. - In Hugginstown, people bring apple to the Chapel-gate & sell them after Mass. It is a paying proposition because they get a penny for each apple after buying the orchards from people around the village, plucking the apples when they are ripe & selling them to get three times their money They dont sell any articles after Mass now.
- Collector
- Michael Moore
- Gender
- Male
