School: Belvoir, Kilkishen

Location:
Belvoir, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Chadhla
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  1. The animals we generally keep in our farm are pigs cows calves and horses. We don't put any names in our cows calves or horses.
    When a man is driving cows he says haba" haba" We call it the cow house where the cows stay. Straw or hay is put under them as "Litter" . Then that is used as farm yard manure for the crops. We stall our cows in stalls. A spansil is hanged in a cows shed is luck.
    The spansil is made to spansil the cows when the cow kicks and she is tied above the hocks.
    After milking people put a cross of the frawth
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
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