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School: Ballyfasey, Glenmore (roll number 9880)

Location:
Ballyfasy Lower, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Domhnall Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 575

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    At present all fairs are held on "fair greens". In olden times they used to be held in fields and a toll of 2d per head for all animals was paid at the gates. Nowadays all bargains are made by the buyer giving the owner of the animal a stroke on the hand and by marking the animal with a cow dung. A fair used to be held in Mathew Aylward's field Ballyfacy about a hundred years ago. A fair is still held in a field near Huggenstown and is calle the "Fair of Harvey. Every month a fair is held in New-Ross in a very wide street called the Irishtown.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trade
          1. buying and selling (~3,622)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Whelan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilbride, Co. Kilkenny