School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)of ground on Reillys hill. The chief things that were sold were flowers, pots, pitchers and crocks. The market was held every year about the month of May. The people responsible for the arrangements were Hugh Markey James Hughes and Brian Reilly.
There was a fair held in Nobber on a Monday but it was changed to Tuesday because at one of these fairs a man was killed and before he died he went up the street saying "Nobber no more on a Monday" and so the fair day was changed to Tuesday.
- Long ago there used to be a fair on the top of the hill near our house. It was a wide level space on the side of the road. There used to be crocks made in Knock and sold here. A man named Mr Kelly of Knock was the head of this works. There used to be men employed at the making of the crocks. On the fair day there(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs James Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 54
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Meath
