Note 126 — Chapter IV · THE EXPANSION OF IRISH TRADE.
Reading edition
According to an ancient poem on the great fair of Carman (Co. Kildare) foreign merchants visited this fair and sold there “articles of gold and silver, ornaments and beautiful clothes.” For other references see Joyce: A Social History of Ancient Ireland, Vol. II., pp. 429-431; O’Curry: Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, III., p. 531.