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   “It being on the twenty fourth of May”

   

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   It being on the twenty fourth of May
   The year ninety four
   There was held a fair in Islands
   Where it never was held before

   This fair was not plackcarded
   Though it was rumoured up and down
   And long before the business was held
   They came from Williamstown, Ballyhanuis
   Ballinlough and famous Castlerea

   There's Ballmoe and Glann
   They come likewise that day
   And the people did assemble
   Each evening by the score

   And such enormous prices
   You never heard before
   The pigs they fetched eight pounds each
   And slips were sold for our

   Bonham's they made fifty five
   And some said they made more
   You often did attend a fair
   Where pigs were not so dear

   And yet they were not satisfied

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Patrick Davis

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Carrowneany, Co. Galway