cattle fair

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English

Noun

cattle fair (plural cattle fairs)

  1. An event at which cattle can be shown, bought and sold.
    • 1953 May, T. G. O'Donohue, “Claremorris—A West of Ireland Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 299:
      Goods trains to and from Westport, Ballina, Sligo, overload goods specials (almost a daily feature on the route from Limerick and the south), and livestock specials for the monthly cattle fairs at Claremorris and Ballinrobe constitute the remaining trains.