School: Cloonagh Boys' National School
- Location:
- Coolrawer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: P. O Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0191
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- The domestic animals of the farm are as follows, the cow, the calf, the horse, the donkey, the pig, the sheep, and the goat.
Nearly every cow has a name by which the family knows her, if she was bought she would be called the man's name from whom she was bought.
When driving the cows to or from the field nearly every person says "howey" "howey" is as not to let them go eating along the ditches.
The cows are usually lied round the neck with a chain and piece of rope, the chain is fastened to a "Bukhab" in the wall and the rope is knotted to it in a way that it cannot tighten and choke the cow.
The name usually given to a cows tying is a "spanchel" and sometimes a halter.
The name given to the place(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Fleming
- Gender
- Male
