School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)The halter or rope is always given.
The 14th of May is one of the largest fairs held in Cavan every year. It is called the hiring fair.
There used to be a dead pork fair held in Cavan where no other animals were sold only dead pigs.
At the hiring fair all the servant boys and girls from every part of the country go to it to be hired until November.
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“To not have a halfpenny to jingle on a tombstone.”
To not have a halfpenny to jingle on a tombstone.
As wild as a march hare.
When your will is ready your feet are light.
It is what the child does, and not what is done for him that makes him what he becomes.
He who refuses to remedy a wrong is guilty of a second wrong.
Kindness to the poor always brings a blessing.
