School: Tunnyduff
- Location:
- Tonyduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cathaláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 029
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tunnyduff
- XML Page 029
- XML “Buying and Selling”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)depended on the amount of the price. Friday was considered a lucky day to transact business. Markets were held in former days in the towns. They are still held there. Hucksters went round the roads selling bread and they would say “Fresh bread” Fresh bread” who wants fresh bread.? Pedlers had big long bags. They gave needles and pins for rags and feathers. When they had their bags full they would tie it up in the middle with a rein and they carried them on their backs. The names for coins were “tanner” “bob” and “quid”
Pupil:- Bernard Smyth, Corrodoagh, Bailieboro
From Phil Smyth.
- Collector
- Bernard Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cordoagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Phil Smyth
- Gender
- Male
