School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 153
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- (continued from previous page)and at some clothes are a selling, at other's delph a selling and at other's there are fish biscuits and sweets and things like that a selling.
At Ballyjamesduff fair the showman comes round and performs tricks, such as, holding a wheel on his cheek and balancing it, breaking a six inch nail with his teeth, and tricks like that.
When an animal is sold it is marked with a red or blue keel, the initial of the man's name is clipped by scissors on the animal's hair or sometimes a mark is put on the ear, by boring a hole in it.
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“It's a good horse that never stumbles.”
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