School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)
- Location:
- Loughteeog, Co. Laois
- Teachers: Brigid Keane Brighid Ní Chatháin
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“Irish Draught Horses were in general use on the farm back in '70s and '80s.”
Irish Draught Horses were in general use on the farm back in '70s and '80s. These were animals of strong bone and clean limbs. In later years the Shire and Clydesdale are kept.There was no special breed of cattle, nor of sheep or fowl. Not until the Dept. of Agriculture was set up was any care taken to improve strains or breeds. One old lady here had a little black hen over 20 years of age; it used to roost on the leg of the kitchen table. Another had an old white duck for just as long. They were kept till they died of old age - former in 1901 duck 1905.Women still put a hen to hatch in the kitchen to keep her safe from rats, but she and her chickens are put out in barn when latter are a few days old.There is no trace of animals having been kept in the house with the family at any time. A delicate lamb or calf may be taken into the kitchen and placed near the fire to recover but this is only for a very brief period. Geese and turkeys are generally set to hatch in a quiet corner of the barn.Long ago wheat oats and potatoes were sown in wide ridges. These ridges are still visible in fields which have been laid down in grass, chiefly on the side of hill where the ground is too steep for horses to work. The Faic or spade used by the men in those days was very heavy.