School: Killaraght (roll number 11755)
- Location:
- Killaraght, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Annie Brennan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 134
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- (continued from previous page)every quarter of the year. the people stall fed the suck calves before the fair. At that time they had no colour for making a cattle what they used was a knife or a scissors to cut the initials of the names of the people who bought the cattle into the cattles pens. At the conclusion of the bargain an old custom was to clap hands, When the towns came in the wiped out the fairs at theses places.
At these old fairs there was always a man who took off his coat and dared any man stand on a thread of it. If so, the man who would stand on it would have to fight the man with the coat. The man with the coat was always the "bulley". Thes fais had to be done away with, on account of the terrible fights which took place a them
- Collector
- Una Meehan
- Gender
- Female
