School: Grangemocler (C.) Carrick-on-Suir (roll number 7596)
- Location:
- Grangemockler, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Brigid Feehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 076
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- The cow-houses long ago were long and narrow. The walls were built with clay and the roof covered with freagh on heather on thatched with straw. There were larch sticks along the wall to tie each cow to. Some of the cows were tied around the neck with what they used to call a Nousan. This was Something like a handle of a bucket. It was fastened with a kind of a ring. More of them were tied by the horns with a soft rope. The floors were of clay and sometimes paved with small stones. The beds were of furze and sometimes heather. They usually put a small shake of straw over the furze. The beds when cleaned out every day were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cissie Maher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bleenaleen Lower, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Comerford
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Bleenaleen Lower, Co. Tipperary
