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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 231

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    hardware. Then there are games of differnet kinds. The Lamas fair is a great fair for selling gooseberries and there are lots of them to be got in the standings. The Rabble market is held at Letterkenny but there is a small one in Dunfanaghy and also in Creeslough. In the evenings they do a brisk trade at the fair and the ballad singers are mostly to be heard then. Sometimes they have the newest songs and they sing the very old ones too. When they are finished singing they go around selling ballads and collecting money. A Dentist always attends the fairs and that brings some people to the fair who would not be there at all otherwise. Sometimes there is an odd row at
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    History Edit
    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