School: An Baile Mór (roll number 11193)
- Location:
- Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: D. E. Tate
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- (continued from previous page)how much does he want for the
animal. The buyer will then offer
him what he thinks the animal
is worth. If the seller is not
satisfied with the price they some
times divide the difference and with hand-clap and noise the bargain is finished. Then the animal is marked;
sometimes by clipping a little
hair with a pair of scissors or by
putting on a mark of keel? or some
times by lifting a little mud on
the end of a stick a putting
it on the animal's back. The
animal is then put into the yard
and the buyer pays for it and
sometimes the seller gives him
a shilling or two back of what
they call luck's money.
Sometimes the people pay for
the animals in the public houses
and they get a drink and old(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ruth Moffitt
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Richard G. Moffitt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
