School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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Long ago the cow houses were 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 was tied to a 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 they met a lake or river they would plunge in to it for they did not know whee they were going and some people used shoot them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Corry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
