School: Doirín Árd, Béal Átha an Dá Chab (roll number 15969)
- Location:
- Cappagh More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dubhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 066
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- The people leave their horses out in fields by day and night in the summer to feed on the grass except then they are in use.
In the winter they keep them in the stable because the grass would be scarce and they would not live with the cold.
They feed them in the winter with furze and oats and mangels through the furze sometimes.
In the middle of the day they get some oats especially if they are working hard.
They brush them with a special strong brush. When their hair is getting long they cut it with another special thing called a clipping machine.
- Collector
- Matt Duggan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derreenard, Co. Cork
- The badge of St. Benedict is kept in mostly all the cow houses in this locality. On Christmas night the people say that the cows come on their knees. They say the milk goes to(continues on next page)
