School: Mullagh (C )
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Elizabeth Murchan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 229
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- (continued from previous page)go and have a drink or drinks at the seller's expense. A crowd usually gathers to enjoy the "bargaining" and give all sorts of helpful advice Perhaps a well-wisher may even bargain instead of a buyer or seller, For this, he gets a certain percentage of the price obtained.
(A peculiar thing is remarked in connection with fairs in Mullagh. It is, almost always, a very bad day - rain, wind, thunder and lightning, snow. So much so that it has become a household joke. If weather is fine coming near the fair, people say "Oh it is keeping it for the fair of Mullagh" and I often heard that over in New York and other American cities, when(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ida Deignan
- Gender
- Female
