School: Ceathrú Stialláin (Carrowsteelawn) (roll number 12555)
- Location:
- Carrowsteelaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Giollagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 285
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- (continued from previous page)are home-made, but the chains are bought in shops. Whe na person is tying a cow, he makes sure that he will tie it in a proper way so that the cow will not get choked. A straw rope is the best kind of a rope that a person could tie a cow with.
When a person is after milking a cow, he always puts a cross on her back with the milk. When a person is calling the hens, he days, "Chuck! Chuck!" and when a person is calling the turkeys he says, "Bee! Bee!" and when he is calling the ducks he says, "Twit! Twit!". When a person is setting eggs for hatching, he puts twelve or thirteen eggs under each hen. There is no mark of any kind put on the hatching eggs.
- Collector
- Rita Mackin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caltragh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Mackin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Caltragh, Co. Mayo
