School: Arklow (B.)
- Location:
- Arklow, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Gearóid Inglis
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- This was a hiring fair apparently which had a connection with the hiring of crews for the local fishing boats, in Arklow.An old fisherman Thomas Kavanagh (70) says:-"I was never at the fair of Benogue, but I remember the old fellows going there to ship their crews. All the intending fishermen from Arklow went, as well as men from Courtown, Tara Hill and Blackwater Co Wexford. You see there was such a crowd of fishermen wanted for the Arklow fishing boats, ( there must have been 80 mackeral boats 60 herring boats, and about 60 oyster boats)(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70