School: Carniska (roll number 1681)
- Location:
- Ceathrú na Sceach, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Richard Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 031
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- (continued from previous page)then looked towards the race-course. One of the horses was then at the winning post and had completed the mile while the man was throwing the barrow of turf.
All classes of ''trick of the loop'' came to this meeting
Local people had tents erected on the plain to supply food and drink People who came a distance ''lodged'' in the farmers houses in the neighbourhood People who had tents slept in them at night and young men of the locality acted as watchmen or police during the night
Thousand of tinkers attended the Ballinafad Fair. Their matches were made and their marriages took place there
