School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
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- (continued from previous page)Besides paying rent, the tenant had to give the landlord so many days' work reaping or making hay. The landlord would sometimes give the tenant a tree for nothing to make a cart, or to roof a house.
- It was the custom that the customers would bring a load, or a couple of loads of sand each to the smith every year. This wasn't in payment for his work. It was a sort of due they gave him. He then sold it for maybe a half a crown a load. In that way he'd make a good penny on seventy or eighty loads of sand. They would bring all that much n one day from the Strand, near Clonakilty.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- William Shorten
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Shanagh, Co. Cork