School: Clonegam, Portlaw (roll number 13901)
- Location:
- Clonagam, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: S. B. Watts
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0654, Page 1
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- The Care of Our Farm animals
1. The farm and domestic animals are :- Cows, Calves, Sheep, Pigs, Bonhams, sheep dogs, c ats and rabbits.
2. Some of the cows have names but we have too many o find names for them all.
3.Some of teh names are :- Agnes, Grey Polly, Old Polly, Young Polly, Regan, Kirwan, Rose, Jane, Kate, Julie, Jill, Josephine, Matilda, Bessie, Fay, Jemima, Snooks, Star and Roney.
4. The cows usually go on when you say “How” “How” similarly with calves.
5. A cowhouse is usually called a Byre.
6. Our cowhouse is a long building. It contains bails for thirty cows. It has three large double doors and it has a cement floor with squares in it to prevent the cows from slipping. The cows stand on a platform and there is a channel 6 inches deep behind them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolfinn, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Larry Kenny
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Worker
- Address
- Portlaw, Co. Waterford
