School: Cloonagh Boys' National School
- Location:
- Coolrawer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: P. O Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0182
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- (continued from previous page)why the people stopped attending it.
The sign the people have for showing agreement to the bargain is by clapping their hands together.
When animals are sold the Jobbers mark them with raddle of every colour, some more with mud, and some would cut hair off the side of the animal so as to know them.
Long ago and even to the present day the people mark pigs by scratching their backs with a knife and sometimes bringing blood.
But if the guards caught them they would prosecute them for cruelty to animals.
- Collector
- John Fleming
- Gender
- Male
