School: Teampoll na Carraige, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 15947)
- Location:
- Templenacarriga South, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Peadar Seymour
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 171
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- (continued from previous page)then to rest for a few hours and then off to the fair in the morning.
- In the year of 1893 there was a fair in Lisgoold. It was held on St John's Day. It was a great fair for sheep, lambs, pigs, and cattle. The field where the fair was held is known yet as the fair field. One fair day there was a woman sold there for a pound. It started with a joke and at last her people sold her. And a man down south bought her.
- Collector
- Chrísthine de Shthach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyedmond, Co. Cork
- On the second Monday of every month a fair is held in Midleton. The animals taken to the fairs are as follows, cattle sheep, and pigs. People from near and far come to those fairs. The fair is held in the fair field. In October there is a special horse fair held at which horses and ponies are sold. There is another fair held called "Aónach an dip", at this fair there is alot of onions sold. At this fair(continues on next page)
