School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Cill Mhuire, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)there with their animals. The fair is held in the streets also.
- When an animal is sold luck money is given. Six pence a head is usually given to the buyer for sheep. A shilling per head is given for pigs. From a shilling to five shillings per head is given for cattle. It is according to the price paid. Horse dealers generally bargain luck. About ten shillings is given. A shillings is given for calves.
- The great fairs of the year are the fairs held before Christmas.
- Collector
- Michael Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Coill an Ó, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Informant
- Daniel Boland
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Coill an Ó, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- There is a fair held in Tullamore every third Friday of the month. cattle, horses, sheep, suck pigs, suck calves(continues on next page)
