School: Richmond (roll number 14400)
- Location:
- Richmond, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giollarnáth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0152, Page 139
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- (continued from previous page)the house. If the house is big enough cows are tied on each side of the channel and if the house is small they are tied but on one side of it.
The rack is the place where the cows are tied. The tyings are first made. Then they are tied on to the rack. Some of the tyings are made from rope by the people themselves. Other people buy chains for tyings.
The cows are very often tied by the horns, and by the neck, and by the legs. There are some cows ties by the neck and foot out in the field to keep them quiet. People often tie garlic in a piece of cloth and hang it in the cowhouse to bring luck on the stock.
When people have finished milking, they dip their in can of milk and then they put the sign of the cross on the cows.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sadie Caden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr John Caden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Mayo
