School: Cluain Catha (roll number 16291)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Dll. Ó Módhráin Ss. Mac Eoghain
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- The Care of Farm Animals.
My father has many animals on the farm namely a horse, an ass, four cows, seven big cattle and four calve, eleven ewes and sixteen lambs, two goats, two cats and one dog named ''barlo''
The cows have not got names. When the old people were putting cows or calves into a field they used to say ''hersh on'' and when they would be putting them out of the field they used to say ''go on pruggies.''
The cow house is a whitewashed house with two doors on it and it has a galvanised roof.
The cows are tied to stakes which are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Hubert Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon
