School: Clonegam, Portlaw (roll number 13901)
- Location:
- Clonagam, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: S. B. Watts
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0654, Page 2
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- (continued from previous page)7. Cows are tied by the necks
8. Some are tied in bails others by chains.
9. Cows are tied by the necks when they come to be milked, sometimes by the horns with a rope when going to a fair, and by the leg if trespassing.
10. The tying materials are chins and wooden or iron bails, the chains are fixed to cement blocks.
11. The bails and cement blocks can be home made.
12. The local names for tying cows are bailing and for tying by the legs fettering or spancelling.
13. A horse-shoe is usually hung in a cowhouse. But not in ours.
14. If the milkers sing while milking ,the cows are supposed to give more milk.
- Collector
- Maud Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolfinn, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Larry Kenny
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Worker
- Address
- Portlaw, Co. Waterford
