School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annraoi de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)"Cow things". People sometimes hang up palm branch in the cow-house to bring luck.
- If a cow is not milked out well she will soon go dry. It is not right to milk out a cow after she calving or she would get the milk fever.
- Collector
- Thomas Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Joseph Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- When driving horses you say "go on Moll, gee up, hop off" The fodder that horses get is hay, cracked corn, grains, turnip, mangolds, potatoes, oats. The horses are brought to a blacksmith to be shod. He pares the hoofs and then nails on an iron shoe. The horses would be lame without shoes. The horses are clipped every Winter. A machine is used to clip them. They are clipped to keep them from sweating.
