School: Tiobraid Árann, Cl. na Trócaire (roll number 9432)
- Location:
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Síle Ní Ghiollagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0578, Page 241
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“The Local Fair for the selling of cattle in Tipperary town is carried on, on the second Tuesday of the month.”
(continued from previous page)whenever it was held it generally rained and sometimes even snowed.
The pig fair is held every Thursday chiefly in the Main Street. Pigs are mostly bought by local buyers. The horse fair is held on the first Monday of each month chiefly in Davis Street and Market Street. Buyers attend in large numbers and come from England and foreign countries to buy horses.
- Collector
- Nancy Bushby
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bushby
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary