School: Ballinatone, Rathdrum
- Location:
- Baile na Tóna Íochtarach, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teachers: Miss Stuart Miss Campbell
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- Fairs.In this district there are three fairs held. One is held in Rathdrum, one in Aughrim and one in Avoca. There are separate horse fairs.
When an animal is sold sometimes the farmers will have a drink, sometimes they shake hands.
When the man who sold the animal is paid, he has to give back luck money. For a pig he gives a shilling, for a bor he gives sixpence and for a cow or a horse five shillings.
James King,
Cronemore Hse., Aughrim
- Collector
- James King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Corrán Mór, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- There is a fair field in Macreddin and another in Coolgraney. In Coolgraney it is held all to one side because there is a brook and there were houses at one side and the fair was held at the other.
Frank Ellison,
Whaley, Rathdrum - Collector
- Frank Ellison
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Bheitheánach (Whaley), Co. Chill Mhantáin
