School: Boulavogue
- Location:
- Boleyvogue, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Énrí Tréinfhear
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- 134The Local Fairs.
There are no fairs [held] in this district. People around here go to Enniscorthy and to Gorey fairs. Chicken-buyers come to the cross-roads to buy chickens. Cattle buyers go to the farmers' houses to buy cattle. Sometimes they would go to a farmer's [house] who would have no cattle to sell and the farmer would send the Cattle-buyer to a farmer who would have cattle to sell. People when they sell anything give a little money and that is called "luck". Some buyers when they get luck-money spit on it.Michael Parle,
The Harrow, Ferns.
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- Collector
- John Leacy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ferns, Co. Wexford
- Local Fairs.
If a buyer and seller "split the difference" there is no luck-money given. Sheep are marked on the head with red paint. Pigs are marked on(continues on next page)
