School: Achadh na Garron (Aughnagarron) (roll number 5603)

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1. Buying and Selling (continued)

   

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   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

   

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2. Hidden Treasures

   

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   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.

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   Topics

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      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Anna Smyth

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Aghnagarron, Co. Longford

   Informant

   Mrs Pat Kiernan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   58

   Address

   Aghnagarron, Co. Longford