School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Sráid an Mhuilinn (roll number 2278)
- Location:
- Sráid an Mhuilinn, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: An tSr. Caoimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0323, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)from place to place trying to sell things or buy skins or second hand goods at a cheap rate. They still come around here.
Tinkers are people who made tin cans and small tables and go around to the houses selling them
Rag-men and bottle-men came around to the houses gathering rags and bottles; they gave money for them.
The following coins are known by these names. A half-pence is known as a "hapeny". a penny or a copper, a sixpence or a tanner, a shilling or a bob, ten shillings or a half-Quid, a pound or a Quid, a five pound note or a fiver, a ten pound note or a tenner. A fourpenny bit. a crown. and a sovereign and a half-sovereign in silver are gone out of use, also a farthing.
- Collector
- Mary Criss Corkery
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- An Seanchnoc, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Jeremiah Corkerry
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- An Seanchnoc, Co. Chorcaí
