School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)
- Location:
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Maonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 229
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- (continued from previous page)have long hair on the udder to burn it off with a blessed candle and it never grows again.
Nearly everyone when finished milking makes a cross on the cow's back with the froth of the milk and says "God bless you"
They are tied to a manger with a chain made of iron.
- 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(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary T. Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Pallas, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Matthew Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Pallas, Co. Westmeath
