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Manorhamil­ton

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OLD FAIR DAY FUN

Everyone will have a great opportunit­y to enjoy a ‘ Big Day Out’ at Manorhamil­ton Castle on this Sunday, May 14, when the North Leitrim Men’s Group will organise a Heritage and Fair Day to mark the 21st anniversar­y of the Group’s founding in the town.

Prior to the establishm­ent of Manorhamil­ton Livestock Mart in the early 1960s, the town’s May 8 Fair Day was one of the biggest social annual social and trading occasion for the most of the local populace.

The revived Old Fair Day on this Sunday will feature craft stalls and demonstrat­ions, as well as giving people a chance to view the castle. There will be live music, pottery demonstrat­ions, blacksmith­ing, a craft demon-

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