School: Log na Daimhehe (roll number 13746)
- Location:
- Lugnadeffa, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: N. Ní Roibín
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“There are a good deal of fairs in this country.”
There are a good deal of fairs in this county.
At the local fairs there comes a good deal of buyers there is one held in Collooney every month and in Sarkhil [?] every month.
All the farmers around go to these fairs with all kinds of animals and they buy things too.
Toll is not paid now, at all these fairs, when a person sells any thing here they give a few shillings look.
When the bargian is made they clap their hands, then the buyer marks the animal with white paint or mud or clip a little bit off them
You would see old men with rings, and other things
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