School: Stackallen (roll number 1309)

Location:
Stackallan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
P.T. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 068

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    galvanised roofs. A manger runs the whole length of the shed and in to that the food is put. It is only in winter that cows are kept in a shed at night.
    We have about forty hens and about thirty small chickens at home and we have two settings of eggs under hens. We also have ten turkey eggs under a hen. When people are calling their hens they say "tchuck, tchuck" and when they are calling their turkeys they say "bee bee." People give boiled eggs and boiled nettles to young turkeys. A crowing hen is supposed to bring bad luck to a place.
    There was a man living in Gernonstown and he had a crowing hen and he thought she would bring him bad luck. She used to follow him to work every day. One morning he got up early and he brought her to four cross-roads and left her at them. He never thought of the hen any more for about five or six weeks, but one morning he met her and he going to work on Barrestown mountain and she crowed right into his face. He got a hold of her and the threw her as far as he could throw her. One say there was an old woman named Mary Cusack gathering sticks on the mountain and she saw the crowing hen hatching eggs under a bush.
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      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
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