School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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- (continued from previous page)sells clothes. He has a drapery shop in Kerry.
- Shops were not as numerous in former times as they are at present. Long ago the people went to the nearest town to buy cattle and clothes. Buying and selling was carried on in the village after Mass on Sundays especially the people that made baskets themselves brought them there to make sale of them to the people. This practice is now discontinued in our district. Money was not always given for goods, sometimes the goods were exchanged for potatoes or oats. Formerly the farmers did not give money to the workmen for their labour but they gave them potatoes and oats and milk and other household goods which was much better(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Creedon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Looney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaneowen, Co. Cork