School: Mainistir na Corann (roll number 12041)
- Location:
- Midleton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Sorcha Madeline Daunt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0395, Page 277
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- The local fairs are held in Killeagh, Youghal and Midleton. There are generally held in town. Buyers generally go around to farmers houses looking for sheep and other animals to buy.
About twenty or thirty years ago there used to be fairs held in Castlemartyr every month but now it has been discontinued, because first it was too far away from the railway station and there was no fair field.
The Midleton fair is held in a fair field. The pigs are left in carts and the cattle are put in the field.
Toll is always paid on cattle sold sometimes it is 5/11 and sometimes only 1s/"
When a bargain has been made, the party show their agreement by striking hands. The animals are marked by red paint(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Northridge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymacsliney, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr S. Northridge
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymacsliney, Co. Cork
