School: Lisdoonan
- Location:
- Lisdoonan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac an Éanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)in Ballybay there is a special green for cattle only. There are also cattle yard in which you have to pay three pence a head for every cow or calf put in.
Long ago toll was paid at every fair it is not paid nowadays. When the cattle are sold there is a "luck penny" given and it is generally two shillings or half a crown. When a horse is sold there is oftentimes as much as ten shillings given as a luck penny. When a bargain is a making and when the buyer and seller can not agree as to the price a third man steps in a catches the right hand of one and the left one of the other and makes them agree not to break his word and the bargain is often made as a result of his intervention.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Goodman
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Goodman
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunaree, Co. Monaghan
