School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- Some people put a lanit on a goat that strays away. It is put from the fore leg to the back one, More puts a swivel on them. You will put a rope round each goats neck and then put a bit of wire between the two.
The way we call the hens is "Guck Guck."
- Collector
- Kevin Mc Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Owen Mc Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 56
- Address
- Mitchelstown, Co. Meath
- To put a grain of salt in the bottom of the milck can going out to milk is counted lucky. To make the sign of the cross on the cows back when finished milking is for luck.
June is supposed to be an unlucky month for hatching eggs, it is also unlucky to take a setting of eggs without giving something back in return.
When a sitting of eggs we put down the last egg is marked so as to show what day it went down(continues on next page)
