School: Achadh na Garron (Aughnagarron) (roll number 5603)
- Location:
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 368
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- (continued from previous page)The words connected with buying and selling are tick, cant, boot change.
The word tick is used when a person goes to the shop for goods and has no money for to pay for them that person tells the shopkeeper for to give the goods to him or her on tick.Written by Anna Smyth, Aughnagarron, Granard, Co. Longford.
Told by Mrs William Smyth, Aughnagarron, Granard, Co. Longford. Age 45
- Once upon a time there was a man going into Granard by the Gortnawillian laane the byroad from the Aughnagarron road into Barrack Street in Granard and his name was James Reilly of Aughnagarron, Granard, Co. Longford.
When he had gone some distance in the lane he cut in across the fields known locally as the rockfields.
Those rocks lie at the back of James Finnegan's house of Grassyard, Granard Co. Longford and they are also in Berney Macken's fields of Barrack Street, Granard.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Anna Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Pat Kiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Aghnagarron, Co. Longford
