School: Coillte Mághach (roll number 12520)

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1. The Local Fairs (continued)

   

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   mark the animal. This marking is done in several ways by different buyers, but the most common way is to dip the tip of a stick in the mud of the street and leave it on the animal's back. Buyers on a large scale have their own special mark, some of them use a scissors to clip an initial on the animals back others use coloured chalk or raddle. The pig buyers generally mark on the back with the scissors.

   When an animal is sold the rope is not retained though indeed ropes are rarely seen on animals now-a-days.

   All the fairs rank equally though indeed the summer fairs are generally the largest for cattle and sheep and the autumn and winter fairs for pigs. Sheep are sold on the same days as cattle, but as this is not a sheep raising district the farms being too small for that the number of sheep seen at a fair nowadays is small. They occupy, or used to occupy one little square of the main street.

   Donkeys horses and mules are also for sale on the cattle fair day but occupy a side street. The number of these

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trade
            1. buying and selling (~3,622)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máirtín Ó Cearbhaill

   Gender

   Male