School: Ballinea (roll number 10426)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Farrell
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- We have one cow and her name is Sally. She is milked every morning and every evening. In the summer she is left out but in the winter she is brought into a stable and given hay.
We have three calves they are left out in the summer but in the winter they are brought in at night. They are fed with milk out of a bucket.
When calling the calves they say Suck suck and rattle bucket.
We have twenty hens they are fed twice a day in the summer and three times a day in the winter.
As night they are put into a stable.
We have a goose and a gander and seven goslings(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hanstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mr Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
