School: Killomoran (roll number 15147)
- Location:
- Killomoran, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Delia Mc Kague
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0280
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- Cows are tied in cabins in several ways, some are tied by a rope round their horns attached to a post in the ground.
Others by a chain round the neck which is fastened to a beam across the cabin inside which the hay is given to them.
Others still are tied in "bales" which are made of timber posts stuck into the ground and the cow's head goes in between these posts and a block is stuck in at the top to keep the posts on the cow's neck.
- Turkey's are called thus Beeb, beeb, Ducks Spoon, spoon, and Feenick, feenick.
Hens Tuk, tuk.(continues on next page)
