School: Carrowrile (roll number 10396)
- Location:
- Carrowreilly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 366
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“When a cow calves a penny is put in the bottom of a can before she is milked first.”
When a cow calves a penny is put in the bottom of a can before she is milked first. A shafe of oats is wet and then it is stuck up the chimney and suet put on it. Then it is given to her. The first milk a cow has after calving is called beastings. People boils it and drinks it. A ponny is got and holes are put in it and put on the calf to prevent him from eating hay or straw. A cow does not be let out for nine or ten days in the winter and in the summer she is kept in two or three days after the calves. A half burned sod is put under the cow and over her three times. The calf gets new milk until he is two months
- Collector
- Brigid Hevers
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Claragh Irish, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Pat Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Deenodes, Co. Sligo