School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)

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   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.

   

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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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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. animal husbandry (~2,587)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary T. Coyne

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Pallas, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Matthew Coyne

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Pallas, Co. Westmeath