School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0272, Page 107
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- Most of the fairs are held in Ballinasloe. Buyers often came to the houses to buy sheep or cattle long ago and they come now too.
The fairs were held on the street for horses and pigs and for the sheep and cattle there are held in the green. If you did not sell you need not pay the custom, for if you bought you would pay one penny for each animal. Bonhams are sold in the market.
There is money given back after selling a beast about one or two shillings for luck. When they are making the bargain they spit on their hands and hit them together. When animals are bought the man puts a brand of tar on their backs. When you sell a horse you give away the halter with him. The greatest horse fair is on the first of January. The biggest fair for cattle and sheep and for all the rest of animals is the October fair.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- P.J. Killeen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
