School: Scrabagh (roll number 11202)
- Location:
- Scrabbagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs Rose Ffrench
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- (continued from previous page)bring luck on the stock. When calling the hens you say "chuck, chuck, chuck" and when calling the pigs you say "hurish, hurish, hurish".
When setting eggs there is a mark put on them. The house in which the cows are kept is called a cow-house. This house is white-washed inside and outside. Almost every farmer keeps a horse. The house in which he is kept at night is called a stable. He is clipped once a year and he is shod by a blacksmith.
John Glancy 11th November 1938
- Collector
- John Glancy
- Gender
- Male
