School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)
- Location:
- Aclint, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Neill
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- (continued from previous page)fair in Mullacrew after mass: and the people would take their cattle to it and sell oats in the fair; The names they had for a sixpence in those days was a tanner; and for a shilling was a "bob" and for a threepenny bit a "kid's eye". When they would get things and not to pay for them for a while they would call that "Brog" and some of them "cant". There used to be a man going around looking for bottles and bones and old rags whose name was James Molloy he would give them sixpence for any old rags; The names they had for a half Crown was a cart wheel
Told by
John Martin
Knockaboys
on 7th June 1938
Written by Kathleen Martin
Edmondstown - Story
There is a fort in Harristown above Ardee and there is a lot of Soldiers buried in it. Garlic Gaolen, is buried there the head of the army; One day there was a football match near the fort and there was a lot of shouting and laughing going on and Garlic Gaolen came out and asked them what took them there and they(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edmondstown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- John Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockaboys, Co. Louth