School: Calary, Bray
- Location:
- Calary Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0912, Page 158
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Some of these are checky and want more rags and feathers and would not give you their worth. They still call about once or twice a year in lorries or carts.
A shilling is called a "Bob" and a sixpence is called a "tanner" and a penny a "copper" a pound note is called a "quid" "five" shillings is called a "dollar" The farthing is going out of use by degrees. The English money is also going out of use. The fourpenny bit is something like a threepenny but, it has also gone out of use now. There are no gold half sovereigns now in Ireland they have died away.
Mammy made a hole in a sixpence. She bought something with it in Roundwood.
In about three months time she got it back for change in the Post Office in Roundwood and bought something else with it since, but it never came back to her(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs Caroline Sutton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Glasnamullen, Co. Wicklow
