School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 01_013
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- (continued from previous page)them and again around the cows' necks. Often they used loosen in the cabins, with a post tied around their necks. It was a custom long ago when a cow would calf to put a cut on his ear so that he would get no disease.
Long ago the cows and cattle used go mad. When they would be lying down or standing up a fit would come on them and they would leaping and tearing around the field, and often had to be killed.
Name of diseases on cattle.
1) Tubercolis
2) Fever
3) Ringworm
4) Timbertongue
5) The floose
6) Consumption
7) Cough
8) Difficult Breathing
- Names and diseases on cattle.(1) Tubercolis
2) Fever
3) Ringworm
4) Timbertongue
5) The floose
6) Consumption
7) Cough
8) Difficult Breathing - Collector
- Brigid Keely
- Gender
- Female
