School: Smithstown, Castlecomer (roll number 14626)
- Location:
- Smithstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Mhórdha
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- Cows have got names such as Molly or Whitefoot, White cow, Speckle cow an Short horn. When people are driving cows in or out of a field they usually say "High Home, or "Bale up", or "High Ho". The cowhouses are usually big with a chanel in the middle of them. Some of them have windows like dwelling houses, and some of them has two doors. Most of them are white-washed inside. Cows are usually tied with an iron to the bale and some are tied with a chain. Emblems are hung inside some doors with some people such as a picture for luck, or to keep them safe during the night. Some people wash the cows elders before they milk them, so as to have the milk clean. I never herd any story connected with milking, but it was a custom to wash their elders.
- Collector
- Mary Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Edward Kehoe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Coan, Co. Kilkenny
