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School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)

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Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Ó Maonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 229

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    When the people round here are driving the cows they say "How," and when they are milking them if they are kicking they say "herish." There is always a branch of Palm or Sacred Heart Badge hanging up in the cow house. The people round here call the shed the cows are kept in cow-house. They are tied with a chain round the neck. Sometimes they rogue and there is a chain tied out of their two Side legs that is called a "lang", and sometimes it is tied out of their horn and front leg, that is called Crimnash. It is an old custom to
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