School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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- (continued from previous page)country house is that the roof be thatched with rushes and a half-door. The top of the chimney is made of a box and plastered with mud and white-washed. The yard is paved with stones and houses on each side.
- The fair day is held on the square in Castlecomer. When you are selling a cow or any other beast some man proposes a price and the man that is buying sticks to that price. When the beast is bought you give back some money as luck and then they go into(continues on next page)