School: Baile Aodha (B.), Inis (roll number 13418)

Location:
Ballyea, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Mathúna
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  1. Fairs are numerous enough nowaday They have fair-greens with big walls all round them. In the time of the Black and Tans all the towns were held up by soldiers and they had to have the fairs at cross roads and and places away in the quiet. Some people had to go very long distances to fairs. A short time ago also they used hold them in the streets but now they hold them in the fair-greens. In the time of the terror it is often people used have to go 12 or 14 miles to a fair. If the night were wet then they might get a terrible wetting and they would be soaking the wet all day at the fair. When they sell animals now the seller has to give a luck penny to the buyer.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trade
          1. buying and selling (~3,622)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sylvie Barrett
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tom Meere
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Drummeen East, Co. Clare