Scoil: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (uimhir rolla 4127)
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- An Scairt, Co. Chorcaí
- Múinteoir: Mrs R. Eager
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- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)generally bought and sold there is the toll. At this fair the cattle are taken to the fair field and the horses allowed to remain in the street. When the cattle are bought by locals after a lot. heckling the bargain is clinched by a slap on each others palm and 2/6 or 5/- luckpenny is given according to the sum of money paid, and of course a "treat" is the nearest "pub".
There are men known as blockers who attend the fairs and their work is to make bargains for the buyers and earn some money for doing so. When the buyers who come from the cities make a purchase cattle are generally marked on the flank with a scissors or raddle and they get the usual luckpenny. The buyer hires a drover to take the purchases to some railway station.
The horses are always sold in the street and of course there are plenty tinkers to do business in this line. They often dose an old nag for the day and get a good price and the next day the horse is not worth a shilling. I heard of the case of a small farmer buying one of those horses for £5 and got chance of trying the horse that evening and thought it satisfactory. the paid(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)- Bailitheoir
- James Mc Carthy
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- Denis Mc Carthy
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- An Fhairche, Co. Chorcaí