Munster in 30 Artworks, No 27: Cahirmee Fair, by Glanmire-born artist Sylvia Cooke-Collis 

The painting by the Cork artist was created in the 1940s, and formed part of a donation to various art galleries  

A detail from Cahirmee Fair,  by Sylvia Cooke-Collis. Picture courtesy of Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Sylvia Cooke-Collis’s Cahirmee Fair is a vivid celebration of the event that brings horse dealers from all over the country, and even further afield, to the North Cork town of Buttevant on 12th July every year.

The fair is so old that no one quite knows when it started, though what is known is that it originally ran at the Fair Field of Cahirmee, two miles west of Buttevant.