School: Fearglass (roll number 15616)
- Location:
- Fearglass South, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 489
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- The fairs are held in towns. Cattle are sold on a green in most of the towns and pigs are sold on the streets. When a man would be selling a cow another man would come up and say "I will rule this price". The man that is selling wants ten pounds and the man would say, I will give you eight pounds for her. The man would not agree and the buyer would go away. After a while he would come back again and he would go up ten-shillings and the seller would go down ten-shillings and there is only one pound between them and the seller will give you a good luck-penny. And the seller would say, "I won't break your word. The three men went into a public house, and the buyer pays the man, and then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joe Milton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Beihy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Milton
- Gender
- Male
