School: Ladhar an Chrompáin (roll number 14998)
- Location:
- Lyracrumpane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ladhar an Chrompáin
- XML Page 443
- XML “Local Fairs”
- XML “Bread”
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
- Fairs are held in Listowel every fortnight. The buyers never go out to the country because they have enough cattle to get in the towns. There was a fair long ago in the townland of Purt, which has been transferred to Abbeyfeale, and it is held on the fifteenth of December. When the cattle are sold, the buyers give instructions, to take the cattle to the railway station, and put them into a waggon or into a yard, and then you must pay custom leaving the fair - usually a half-crown or two shillings.
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Cheanfialaidh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaunbrack, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Matt Kennelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Knockaunbrack, Co. Kerry
- The bread people used long ago was called yellow-bread. It was made of Indian meal and wet with water. It would remind you of crackers it was so hard. It was baked every day in a griddle and cut into pointers or squares put in front of the fire and supported by a stand. Querns were in every house at that time. They were used to crush oats. It was sieved after and the shell taken from it and afterwards it was used for gruel. Often the family and servants(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Cheanfialaidh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaunbrack, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Matthew Kennelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Knockaunbrack, Co. Kerry