School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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- (continued from previous page)to be fed he says "Suck! Suck!"
The cowhouse is called a stall. In his stall there are bales for every cow. His cows are never tied by the horns nor by the necks. There is a stick going across from wall to wall and a stick parallel to it at the bottom. Two upright sticks make the bale. One of these sticks can be pushed back to put the cow's head inside between the sticks and the bale is closed with an iron clasp.
There is a horse-shoe hanging off the rafters of William Dowling's cowhouse to keep diseases from coming on his stock.
It is an old custom when the cows are milked to put the Sign of the Cross on their backs. Another custom is to put a puck goat with the cows when they are put out in grass. It is said that this prevents the cows from "slinking". The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltomy, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- William Dowling
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltomy, Co. Kerry
