School: Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair (roll number 10731)
- Location:
- Knockcarron, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Dúthaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0512, Page 276
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cnoc Cairn, Imleach Iubhair
- XML Page 276
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title)
“When a sow farrows, the offspring are taken away according as they are farrowed. This is to prevent their being smothered or eaten by the sow...”
When a sow farrows, the offspring are taken away according as they are farrowed. This is to prevent their being smothered or eaten by the sow. A good story is told of a local incident relating to above, which is perfectly true. I am debarred from giving names (on request) but here is the story:- A farmer put his son to watch over a sow farrowing with instructions to "put the banb's away according as they were farrowed. The son took his fathers words too literally, and according as the banb's were furrowed he threw them over the parapet of a neighbouring bridge into the river. The litter numbered fourteen. In the morning when the father asked the son if he put the banb's away, the son proudly said yes.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Duhig
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Emly, Co. Tipperary