Scoil: Uachtar Achaidh (uimhir rolla 9762)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Local Fairs

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Fairs are held on the first Tuesday in every month in Ballinamore. The fairs are now held in the street, but formerly there was a green.
   When animals are bought the buyer has to pay "toll". He pays it to a man named Mr Bierne; he pays sixpence on cows and three pence on calves and two pence on a small pig, When an animal is sold the seller generally gives the buyer some money back. This is called a "luck penny."
   When a bargain is made both parties show their approval by striking hands.
   Fairs used to be held in Kesh, but were discontinued because it was inconvenient as there is no railway.
   Sometimes jobbers come to big farms to buy stock.
   When animals are sold they are marked with keel, sometimes the buyer just takes up some mud on the end of his stick and marks them with it.
   When cattle are sold the halter is generally kept, except when a horse or bull is sold.
   There are no special fairs for horses or

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trade
            1. buying and selling (~3,622)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Olive Mitchell

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Killaneen, Co. Leitrim