School: St Bridget's (roll number 13854)
- Location:
- Derrymore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Uí hOistín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138D, Page 15_008
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- The animals that are seen on my farm are cows, calves, sheep, and donkey. The cows have no name except two of them "the Horny Heifer and the White Heifer".
When you are driving the cows you say "[?]". The cow house is called a barn. There is a stick in each end of the barn fasened to the wall at each end. The is a drain in the middle. There are four tyens in each end. The cows are tied on the neck and the calves are tied on the feet. This is how the cows are tied.
There is a snappel fastened in the stick and there is a piece of a chain fastened in the snappel.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Oistín
- Gender
- Female
