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School: An Baile Mór (roll number 11193)

Location:
Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
D. E. Tate
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 229

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    The fair is a place where the farmer sells his cattle. Creeslough fair is the fair when they mostly attend. It is held on the tenth of each month. The Dunfanaghy fair is held in the 18th of every month, and Falcarragh fair is held on the last Thursday of each month, and is supposed to be the best fair for buying or selling horses. The People com from Horn Head an Dunfanaghy and all around to the Creeslough fair. Sometimes the buyers come along the road meet the people going in with their animals and buy them off them before they go into the fair at all. Lots of cows, sheep, donkeys, horses and cartfulls of young pigs go to the fair. When they buy the cows they
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trade
          1. buying and selling (~3,622)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lucy Moffitt
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Elizabeth M. Moffitt
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballymore Lower, Co. Donegal