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School: Newtown, Borris

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Newtown, Co. Carlow
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 538

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    In this district when you would look around the byre you would see a horse shoe hanging over the door for look. A goat is very lucky with cows because it is said that a goat is able to keep away all diseases from cows.
    Milking story. About one hundred years ago a man by the name of Thomas Ryan lived in Knockeen. One day he went into the byre with a bundle of he looked around the house and he saw a small bird on the wall and he killed it, the little bird was a swallow. In the evening when he was milking the cows one of them milked a can of blood. It is never lucky to kill a swallow and it is said that a swallow is lucky when she builds her nest in the byre.
    The principal animal on the farm is the horse. When a man is going a long journey he ties a horse
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eugene Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolyhune, Co. Carlow
    Informant
    Patrick Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Coolyhune, Co. Carlow