School: Mionloch (C) (roll number 8800)
- Location:
- Menlough, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Bean Uí Oisín Bean Uí Dhubhagáin
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- The fairs long ago used always be held in a fort, field, or street, but nowadays the fairs are in towns. There is a place about a mile from my house called Fort an Aonaigh. In this field the fairs were held. There is a large rock in the middle of the field where the buyers used pay the men for the animals. There is also a post with bulbs out each side of it, for the people long ago bought a lightning-set to light the bulbs on fair - nights.
Long ago the buyers used go around from house to house to buy the animals. The buyers used give very little money(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rita Scully
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Ryan
- Gender
- Male