School: Castlepollard (B.) (roll number 5513)
- Location:
- Baile na gCros, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: William Coghlan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0720, Page 151
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)pence per head.When two people are making a bargain they usually clap each others hand. Then a friend steps in and says "What is between you". He takes their two hands and claps them together and says "Do not break my word. Let it be a bargain Divide a crown"
Then he takes a piece of mud on his stick and rubs it on the bullock's back to show he is bought.When the owner gets his money he generally gives some money for luck. This is called Luckpenny. Sometimes bargain is made without Luckpenny and is called "Clear to pocket". Luckpenny varies.The biggest fairs of the year are the April and November fairs.Collected by Hugh Devaney, and from information supplied by his father
Address:- Teerevagh, Castlepollard.
- Collector
- Hugh Devaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Teevrevagh, Co. na hIarmhí
