School: Castlebridge (C.) (roll number 16382)
- Location:
- Castlebridge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs. Shortall
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)the pig fair is held on the "Pig Market Hill", Sheep are sold in Wafer St. and cattle are sold on the Bridge and down along the Quay.
The "Market Square" is taken up with various dealers in gates, creels, stools, also men selling clothes, other stalls with iron goods and farm implements, others selling brogues, and every tinker in the country is here too with wives and families, asses and carts and all their tinware. Here too are a couple of apple stalls "Peggies Leg" and biscuits, oranges, and apples also a big dish of pigs feet with wedges of bread and butter, these do a roaring trade on a fair day.
At the lower side of the Market Square are rows of "Herring Women" as they are called each sitting at their own box and praising her own fish as being the freshest.
At one corner too is the "Cockle Man" all the way from Bannow which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Evelyn Shortall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyboggan Lower, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- James J. Shortall
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Ballyboggan Lower, Co. Wexford
