School: Cluain Catha (roll number 16291)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Dll. Ó Módhráin Ss. Mac Eoghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 504
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- (continued from previous page)in the months of March, April, October and November.
- The Fair of Ballinafad.
The fair of Ballinafad was an ancient which started about the twenty seventh of August and lasted a week.
Cattle, horses, sheep and pigs were brought and sold here and people always got very good prices for their cattle at it.
This fair took in a large area of about fifty acres of land and all this belonged to one man.
There were races(continues on next page) - Collector
- Brigid Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 92
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon
