School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0999, Page 111
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- The local fairs are held in the town of Virginia, they are always held in towns. Buyers sometimes transact business in farmer's houses. There is a tradition about a fair which was held on Murmud Hill. The fairs are always held in the village streets.Toll is not paid on cattle sold. Sometimes the seller brings the buyer into a public-house and treats him to a few bottles of stout instead of giving him a "luck penny."When a bargain is made the parties concerned show their agreement by striking hands or spitting.When cattle are sold they are marked by mud on the flank or they are branded by a marker, called a raddle.
The outside of the raddle is covered with tin, inside the tin there is paint which is as soft as polish.
The paint is of different colours.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agatha Lawrence
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Enagh, Co. Cavan
