School: Coill na Leac
- Location:
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mac Geibheannaigh
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- The biggest fairs that are held through-out the year are held in Cavan on the fourteenth of May and on the first day of November.
The dealers mark the animals with ciel. Each dealer has a different colour of ciel, so that they may be to able distinguish their own animals.
The way the dealer marks the animals is, he puts a long mark down her back, and another mark across, so that the mark is in the shape of a cross. The sellers usually give the halters to the buyers, because they say if they brought them home it would bring bad luck among the cattle.
- The local fairs be in Cavan and Belturbet. The most important fair of the year is the fourteenth of May fair. On a fair day cattle are sold in a place by themselves and the horses in a place by themselves. When a man sells a cow he gives a luck-penny which 2s 6d, and when he sells a horse he gives the same amount. When a man goes to the fair with a horse, and sells him, he leaves the halter on him. Long ago there used(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
