School: Skryne (roll number 1210)
- Location:
- Skreen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 378
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- The care of our farm animalsPigs are the only animals we have at home. Cows are tied at night with chains round their necks. In dairy farms cows are numbered or named. There are certain cows that are accustomed to be milked by one person and will not let down their milk to strangers. Some horses are tied by head collars more by neck bands and more are left loose in box stalls. Hair clipping is done by hand machine which only takes one man, and when done by wheel machine it takes three men. Farm horses are clipped trace high, race horses are clipped all over, hunter are clipped in different ways, some are skirted, some are clipped all over with the track of the saddle left on their back. Hals lin an Irish bred horse wond the Irish Grand National three times in succession. the way the people calls pigs is "Hurish Hurish". Goats are called by "Kiddie Kiddie". Hens are called by "Tioc Tioc". Turkeys "Gebe gebe" "lioth Lioth". If eggs come any journey for hatching they are left to set for some time. When they are being put under the hen it was an old custom to shake salt on them.Frances Crocock
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- Frances Crowcock
- Gender
- Female
