School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 452
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- (continued from previous page)summer. In her stable in a manger and a water-trough. The bedding we use is rushes. Her name is Girleen.
The farmers round about keep cows horses and calves. The cows are put into cow-house in November and let our in May In the cow-houses they are fastened by bails and every cow knows its own stall.
The bails are made of timber. There is a plank laid along the ground and another about five feet overhead the other. Then there is a stake mortised between these planks and another about a foot and a half apart away from the others; this one is loose so that it can move to and fro. When the cow puts her head between the stakes, the loose one is fastened to the other by a hoop on the upper plank
The cows are bedded with their own leavings of hay or rushes. A lot of the cows have names,:- Sleepy Valley, Horse-and-tar, Boney, Frost. Their food is turnips, bran, cotton-cake and hay. The horses are put in stables in the winter and left out in the summer They are fed with mangels, hay and oats. A lot of them have names such as Charley, Bob, Moll, Gracy. They are clipped once a year.
- Collector
- Patrick Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coonagh East, Co. Limerick
