School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Doire Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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- Horses
Every farmer in my district has a horse.
The stable fodder they get is oats hay straw and potatoes. If a horse has a cough they will give him straw they say that straw will cure it.
The people say that washed potatoes is very bad for a horse. The people do not wash them but they leave the clay on them when they are going to give the potatoes to the horse. No man in my district has goats but they have a lot of sheep. The farmers have their sheep in the hills in spring and in summer. And in the month of October the sheep come down themselves from hills and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Tónra
- Gender
- Male
