School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)

Location:
Castleisland, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Céin
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    a cabin. There are two doors in each cowhouse a back door and a front door. The farmer brings in the hay in the back door, and let the cows out the front door.
    In every cowhouse the cows are bailed, that is a big board runs along the bottom and another along the top of the wall. Then there are uprights between them - one fixed and the other movable, and when the cow puts her head between them they are kept from opening on the cows neck by an iron Crook. There are 2 uprights for each cow, and they are about 4 feet apart, that is one pair is about 4 ft from the other. Sometimes cows are tied by the horns and by the neck with chains.
    The people hatch eggs too. First they get a box and fill it with hay and make a nest in it. Then they put down 12 eggs, they never put down thirteen because they say it is unlucky. The hen is then put hatching on them for 3 weeks.
    There is an old story told about a puck goat when the English were hunting the priests for saying mass, once the English were hunting the priests a puck goat saw a great crowd of people and he ran into Castleisland
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Neilly Mitchel
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Crag, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    John Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    83
    Address
    Dooneen, Co. Kerry