School: Tomhaggard
- Location:
- Teach Moshagard, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0877, Page 237
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- Lill Dempsey
- Gender
- Female
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- Mr James Dempsey
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Baile Bóthair, Co. Loch Garman
- The Fair of St Anne
Years ago a fair was held in Tomhaggard on St Anne's day. Old people say it was a very big fair, with pigs, cattle, sheep, and everything the people could sell. this fair would be continued for a week or more. Some thousands of people would come to it and put up tents. The person I heard it from(continues on next page)
