School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
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- XML “Buying and Selling”
- XML “Buying and Selling”
- XML “Buying and Selling”
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- (continued from previous page)every day of the year.
- Pedlars still come round this way. They sell laces, tie-pins, studs, ring for fingers etc. A couple of people come round with ponies and cows. They buy things from the people such as bottles, rags, cloth, feathers, rabbit skins, horse hair and jam jars.
- When the people get things on credit they are said to be getting it on tick, or on the long finger.
- A half-penny was called a "make". A penny was called a "wing". Six pence was called a "tanner". A shilling was called a "bob or a bar". One and a kick was called a bob and a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Daniel Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Wood of O, Co. Offaly