School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0143, Page 287
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Teampall Mhuire
- XML Page 287
- XML “Hatching”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- We have forty six hens. They lay better in the Summer then in the Winter. We feed them with oats and boiled potatoes mixed with meal. We feed them twice a day in Summer and three times a day in Winter.
We have many different kinds of hens. They are Rhode Island Reds, Black Monorcas, Wyndottes, Barrocks, Sussex and Leghorns. When going to hatch eggs we get a box and put some clay in the bottom and then we put some hay or straw over the clay and make a nice comfortable nest.
Then we place twelve(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tessie Rogers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Rogers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
