School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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Cows
long ago the cow house was made of mud and roofed with scraws and hay. There was a stick stuck down in the ground a foot from the wall and each cow was tied to this pole with a sugan.Before the mud cabins came out the old people used tie the cow behind the door of the house.
Then the cows used go mad when the water used rise to their brain and they used run off pure wild before them and if met a lake or river they would plunge in to it for they did not know where they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
