School: Cluain Catha (roll number 16291)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Dll. Ó Módhráin Ss. Mac Eoghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 449
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- (continued from previous page)First they used to rasp the potatoes and put them into a basin and let them settle. They then used to skim the head of it and the starch was left underneath.
- The Care Of Farm Animals.
The farm animals are cows, calves, horses, sleep, goats, pigs and donkeys. The domestic animals are the cat and dog.
The cow house is a low house formerly thatched with no window only a door. Nowadays the people are putting iron on the cow house and putting in windows. The cows are tied by the neck or horns to stakes.(continues on next page)
