School: Baile Uí Mheirigín, Merginstown
- Location:
- Merginstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhearrachtáin
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- (continued from previous page)fair was held in Donard but it is now discontinued. This fair was last held in the year 1929. There was once a fair held in Rathsallagh and it is said that it was one of the best fairs in Wicklow. People came from far and near with their beasts to this fair. In the year 1908 a sheep sales was begun in Dunlavin and nearly every one in the district who had sheep attended it. So when the day came on which the fair of Rathsallagh was to be held there were very few sheep in it and so the fair was discontinued This fair was held in a field.
There is a fair held in Hollywood twice every year, on the 3rd of July and on the 1st November. In Castle Ruddery there is a sheep fair held once a year This fair is held on a cross roads. There is a horse fair held in the French Furze yearly, a place situated near the town of Kildare.
When a beast is sold in a fair the purchaser cuts a bit of hair off his hip with a scissors to distinguish him from the other cattle. Some buyers mark the purchased beast with a raddle stick.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Joseph Perkins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Merginstown, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mr Joseph Perkins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Mullycagh Lower, Co. Wicklow