School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121B, Page 05_005
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- (continued from previous page)A horse shoe is nailed to the cow house door for luck The hens is called to their feeding tauc t
The pigs are called puris and the calves are called suck suck and the lambs are called ma ma.
- We have a churn with a dash at home it is three feet high I do not remember when it was made we churn onse a week in summer and onse a week in winter. If a stranger comes in he must take a turn at the churning for fear he would bring the butter My mother takes out the butter puts salt in it we make soda bread with the butter milk When my mother is starting the churning she puts a grain of salt in the churn
- Collector
- David Roughneen
- Gender
- Male
