School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 121
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- (continued from previous page)take oatmeal and a saucer of milk and water. It is left beside the box for them. When they are a week old they are let go out. In the evening they are brought in and put in a box. Some of them take the pip and die. When they are five or six months old they stay outside and go into the hen house. Then they get meal and water mixed.
- There is a fair held on the twenty fifth of February in the town of Mohill. It is called Monaghan day in honour of St(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Farnaght, Co. Leitrim
