Scoil: Ármhach (B.)

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1. Tallysticks

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   About fifty or sixty years ago tallysticks were used in this locality. Frank Walshe now aged 80 years told me he used them in the local flax mill which was then owned by Bernard OConnor. Walshe and others used them as they were then unable to keep accounts. He put a nick in the stick for every stone of flax he had scutched and other scutchers did likewise. They were paid according to the amount of work that had done.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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2. Tallysticks

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   

   Níl tú logáilte isteach, ach tá fáilte romhat tras-scríobh a dhéanamh go hanaithnid. Sa chás seo, déanfar do sheoladh IP a stóráil ar mhaithe le rialú cáilíochta.

   The following story relating to tallysticks was told to Rory OConnor by a pupil of Arva Boys' School by his grandfather Mr. Michael Bennet (74) Arva. As a youth Bennet heard of a dispute a farmer and a labourer concerning the number of nicks in the Tallystick. It seems each kept a tallystick but when the time for payment arrived

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   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Rory O Connor

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Faisnéiseoir

   M. Michael Bennet

   Gaol

   Seantuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   74

   Seoladh

   Ármhach, Co. an Chabháin