School: Uachtar Achaidh (roll number 9762)
- Location:
- Oughteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Caitlín Knott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 044
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- Cows, horses, calves, pigs, goats, donkeys, hens, geese, turkeys, chickens, dogs and cats are some of our farm animals. The cows have names such as "The red cow," "The White cow," "The grey cow" and the Red heifer.We say How! How! when driving the cows. When we are calling the calves we say "Suck! Suck."In the cow-house is a log stick called a beam, and there are stakes tied to this beam. In front of the cows there is a manger where the hay is kept. The cows are tied to the stakes. The cows were often tied by the neck, horns and legs.The Tyings are made out of iron, they are off a foreign make.On May Eve some people hand a round berry branch in the cow house to bring luck on the stock.On a May morning some people used to get up early and milk a cow that did not belong to them and then they said that this brought all the butter and milk to them.The floor in the stable is paved(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Parke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahard, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Parke
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Lahard, Co. Leitrim
