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School: Baile Deasún (C.)

Location:
Ballydesmond, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Ní Mhurchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 555

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    horns. The tyings are made of ropes you would buy in a shop. Cows are tied round the head from the head to the front leg and and they are fettered from the front leg to the back leg with a chain or a rope.
    Palm branches are hung in the cow-house to bring luck on the stock. Long ago there was a very big flood in a river and there was a horse and her foal at one side of it. Their master came to the other side and he called the two of them. The foal was not able to swim she turned to come across but the water carried the foal she saw him going away down with the water she galloped down went into the flood and brought the foal safe to the land.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Roche
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carriganes, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Margaret Cronin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female