School: Fíodhnach (C.), Ráthluirc (roll number 4470)
- Location:
- Feenagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Ghrádaigh
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- There are many different sorts of farm animals, and fowl relating to the farm yard. For instance the cows are the most useful of all animals. In Winter we keep these in a house called a stall, and they are tied by the neck, between two timber poles called a "bale". Long ago the cows were never left out on May Eve night, as it was said that all the fairies would come and milk them and curse them. Nobody should lie in the grass or pull it on May Eve. When putting them in, in the winter they hang holly in the rafter over each cow, so that they would be lucky and calve all right.
Long ago a puck goat was always(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Linane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
