School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0579, Page 256
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- There was a fair held years ago in Mr. Gavins field in Kilfeacle. It was a great day in the parish and nobody used to work. The women and children used to go as well as the men and boys. The women used to sell wool and home-made stockings and the thread they used to spin themselves. There used to be a number of tents there selling sweets and sugarcane and apples and oranges. There was drink there for the men and the men used to get drunk and very often fight. They fought one time so much as that they killed a man. After that the people were not to anxious to go to the fair of Kilfeacle. So by degrees it faded away; it was inconvenient for the buyers to buy much cattle in Kilfeacle because it was not near the railway.
Annie O'Doherty Ballyhurst
Tipperary.
age 9 years.
Heard from Mr. Doherty Ballyhurst
Tipperary
age 50 yrs
- Collector
- Annie O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 9
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- The principal fair in this district is the fair of Tipperary held on the second Tuesday of every(continues on next page)
