School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 016
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- (continued from previous page)fairs are held only four times a year. When animals are sold a tax is to be paid to the Town Council. Different prices are paid as two shillings for a horse and six pence for a cow and a pig. In each town is a special field in which the fair takes place.
In the olden times fairs were held in all villages and on many hill-tops. At these fairs many challenges and fights took place between families and clans. It was more to right their wrongs they came to these centres than to sell their cattle. At this time intoxicating drink was cheap so they were always drunk.
It is nice to go to a cattle fair because all sorts of shopkeepers and pedlars come there and it is delightful to hear them advertising their articles.
- Collector
- Donal Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Mountmusic, Co. Cork
