School: Cluain le Fán (roll number 12817)
- Location:
- Cloonliffen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Callaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0101, Page 267
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- The farm animals are, cows, horses, calves, donkeys, goats, pigs, sheep, dogs, cats, hens, duck, turkeys and geese. All those animals are very useful expecially the cow because she gives us milk, the horse ploughs all the land. All the other animals are also useful.
The way the farmer calls the cow is, "prúach. The way he calls the horse is by his name. He calls the calf by "Bess, Bess the pigs by, "Furish,." All the animals are called by different names. All the animals are more intelligent than the donkey. All those animals are very tame except the goat, the goat is very wild and his delight is to climb walls and roam through the woods.
Long ago there lived a bad woman who never went to mass. There was a mission near where she was living, and the missioner came for her to go to the mission. She said she was going milking the cow and she would not go to the mission. The priest(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Rahard, Co. Mayo
