School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 04_024
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The cows they used to have long ago.
Long ago when the old people used be milking the cows they would have an old shed for them. They used to bring as many tincans as they would have cows and they would milk each cow into a tincan for it self.
Three or four would go milking five or six cows.When they would come home they would put each cows milk into a basin for itself.They used to have names on the cows they used to have Mollie and Nan and the blue cow. Whatever colour the cow would call her that name(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Fanny Vaughan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Scalp, Co. Clare
