School: Baile Aodha (B.), Inis (roll number 13418)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 135
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- (continued from previous page)Ennis the most noted horse fair is held in Spancilhill on the twenty fourth of June a few miles outside Ennis. When a horse is sold, a halter is bought put on her and given with her. There are mostly cattle fairs held in Ennis. Every kind of stock is exposed for sale. They are now held in the year green, but long ago they were held in the streets and lanes. Some buyers mark the beasts they buy with red or blue raddle, others put a cut with a scissors on one of their thighs. In olden times they only gave a penny luck but nowadays, they give a half crown or more as a luck penny.
- The buyer comes up, to the man that has a cow to be sold and says, "How much for the animal? The man says,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Vincent Wall
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Walle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Barnanageeha, Co. Clare
