School: Ballykilmurry
- Location:
- Ballykilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Uí Odhráin
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- (continued from previous page)not fight they would get no blood money from the castle. It was called "Castle money" No one got it only the head of each party. They bet one another on the heads, with black thorn sticks and and ash plants. The travellers came from far and near to the fair. They came weeks before the fair and stopped in Ballycowan. The clergy got up against this fair, because there was so much blood spilt in it. It was stopped
- Collector
- Thomas Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydrohid, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Patrick Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Offaly