School: Camphill (B.) (roll number 1347)
- Location:
- Bleachgreen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Michael Harte
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0175, Page 135
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- The Fair of Carricknagat
The Fair of Carricknagat is held on the first of February each year . How this fair started first is a little bit of a mystery but some people say the travelling people or who are better know as tinkers used to meet there once a year for the purpose of barter and exchange of old horses and donkeys' between .
Then other people seeing that there was a little business done in this way commenced bringing in old horses also and eventually the fair of Carricknagat became a noted horse fair on the 1st of February . Some years ago this fair was considered more important thanit is lately because a jumping competitions for hunting horses used to be carried out in the fair(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Albert Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockbeg West, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Francis Mc Donagh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
