School: Tighmhanach (roll number 15715)
- Location:
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs E. Jordan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 361
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- (continued from previous page)A bob is the name on a shilling. A tanner on a sixpence and a quid on a pound. There are no crowns or four shilling pieces or four penny pieces and (so) few sovereigns and half sovereigns in circulation. Sometimes people bore a hole in a coin or scratch a mark in parting with it and sometimes they get it back again after years. It is considered lucky to get a threepenny bit or a sixpence lost. When the men used to wear watch chains they used to bore a hole in the coin they found lost, and hang it on the chain for luck. Coricctions Sunday, began, considered, men.
