School: Tighmhanach (roll number 15715)
- Location:
- Tigh Mhanach, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Mrs E. Jordan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 325
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- The local fairs are held in Boyle. No fairs ever take place at a cross-roads but some times dealers come out to the farms and buy cattle. There is a fair green for selling the cattle on. Tolls are paid on animals that are bought by the seller. It is sixpence on a cow and threepence on a calf. When an animal is bought money is given back and this is called luck money. When a bargain is made the people spit on their hand and strike them to show they are satisfied. They mark the animals with mud or by cutting off a piece of the hair or by putting on srtipes with paint. The horses are sold on the Carrick Road. The most of the cattle and horses go to the railway station where men are busy putting them on the train. The pigs are sold on the Crescent. There are stalls on the Crescent where second hand clothes and boots are sold.
- Collector
- L. O' Gara
- Gender
- Unknown
