School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 345
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- (continued from previous page)is a pailing round about a perch out from the door and the space inside is called the pen. We let the pigs out in this pen. We feed them three times a day.
The above is supplied by Mr Patrick Smith aged about sixty one years lives in Grange. Peggie Smith.Our cow is tied by the neck to a chain that runs up and down on a post. The chain is about two foot long. My Mother milks the cow and when she wants to get the cow's foot out of the way she says cos a foot a caile. The way we call the cow is caile, caile, caile.
The cure for pip in the chickens is get a feather and dip it into turpentine and put it down their windpipe and take out the pest. When this is done we give the chickens a drink of water.
- Collector
- Agnes Donegan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr William Donegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 48
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Meath
