School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill na Mullach (roll number 11855)
- Location:
- Buttevant, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSiúr Bríd
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- (continued from previous page)to their approach. Buyers come from Dublin, Cork, Waterford and even from England and Wales to purchase horses. About a week before-hand numbers of tinkers may be seen lining up their waggons on the main road and bye-roads. Some people delight in watching these tinkers during the fair especially if they are drunk for they are sure to have a fight.It is most interesting to watch the farmer and the buyer making a bargain. First of all they spend a time quarrelling over the price of the animals and what they are worth. Then when they have agreed to a certain price they strike one another's hands and the buyer gives the farmer some silver which is called "luck money." Then if a local happen to buy from his neighbour they both go in and have a drink together.
- Collector
- Ellen Hanley
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Hanley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Buttevant, Co. Cork