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Fairs and the cattle trade. |
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The main Fairs in this part of the world at that time, was ones that people, they all walked their stock to y'know? Like they didn't, there was no lorries or tractors or anything like that. And Ballyconnell, Lisnaskea and Enniskillen would have been the main fairs which happened. They were held once each month. Enniskillen was the tenth of the month, Lisnaskea was the third Wednesday in those days and Ballyconnell was the 18th. Now that was before there was any sort of restriction on movement of cattle on the Border and people, dealers in Ballyconnell came from, mainly from the Midlands to buy young store cattle to put to grass in the Midlands. And in Enniskillen in those days there was a considerable amount of our stock that went on for further feeding in Scotland. Y'know there was a train and it brought them to the boat, the boat took them across into Scotland. And they shipped cattle in those days from Londonderry and from Belfast. There's not much o' that done today! Everybody more or less, in those days, kept cows and a few cows and they raised the calves and about a year old or 18 months they were taken out to the local fairs and sold and the vast number of them went either down South or across to Scotland.
Ref: 91-17-95.
Interviewer: Sandra Matchett, Fermanagh County Museum.
© Fermanagh County Museum. |
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William Swan |
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91-17-95.mp3
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