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School: Baile Máirtín, Muine Beag

Location:
Ballymartin, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Bean an Bhreathnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 609

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    The stable is twenty five feet long and eighteen feet wide. The horses are shod by the Blacksmith who lives near-by. The horses are clipped in the autumn. No one of whom I have asked could tell me any story of famous hourses long ago.
    We call the hens by saying "Tuk, Tuk, Tuk", When calling the ducks we say Fehny, Fehny, Fehny", If a person doesnt kill a hen on St. Martin's day it is said that all the fowl would die before the next St. Martin's day. When setting hatching eggs it is customary to put a mark on them, to distinguish them from other eggs which might be laid in the same nest
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Dillon
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Ballymartin, Co. Carlow