School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 01_011
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- Nowadays when a person wants a cow "he lets up" a heifer, but in days gone by, the old people used to choose a cow with a white udder. they used say if a cow had a white udder, she would be good for milking.
Usually if a cow's milk is thin, and bad for colouring tea, it is good for butter. Long ago, great commotion would be about buying a cow, nowadays it is almost unnoticed. If a certain man went to a fair to buy a cow all the neighbours would go with to make the "dealing," and in the evening he would treat them all in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Keely
- Gender
- Female
