School: An Muileann (roll number 9208)
- Location:
- Mullen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: B. Mac Siúrtáin
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- (continued from previous page)a red rag on her tail. This was done so that nothing would happen the calf.
When a beast died, the crubeens or horns were cut off, and placed behind the couples in the house. After a cow is milked, the sign of the cross is made, with milk on the cow's hip.
We have about thirty hens. When we are feeding them we call cioc, cioc, cioc, and all the hens come running to the feeding.
We have four pigs. When we want to put in the pig in the sty we say, hurrais, hurrais, hurrais, or(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
