School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 450
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- (continued from previous page)Where ever there was a Chapel or school there was a shop. They were called huckster shops.
When people came to mass on Sundays they generally brought eggs, butter and perhaps vegetables and brought home in exchange tea, sugar, tobacco, snuff and perhaps a loaf for the elders. For meals, flour, boots, clothing etc they had to go to the nearest town.
When money was not available a farmer would send his horses to plough and till for the shopkeeper and a labouring man would give labour in return for goods received. The word(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Hanley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Irishtown, Co. Westmeath
