School: Shannow
- Location:
- Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B. Ó Ciaráin
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- (continued from previous page)but sometimes cattle are marked with mud.
Nowadays the custom of clipping the hair is no longer used.
When an animal is sold the halter is generally retained by the owner of the beast. - Fairs are held locally in Cavan, Belturbet, and Cootehill. All the fairs are held in towns but long ago there used to be a Gooseberry fair held in the village of Redhills. It was held(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Entee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Dan Mc Entee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Killoughter, Co. Cavan