School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)in the Winter time, they are given hay and turnips to eat.
When they are driven from one field to another the driver can be plainly heard saying "how," "how".
Our cow house is a big shed and five mains in it for the cows to put in their heads to be tied.
They are tied with chains and these chains are attached to five big wodden (wooden) stakes.
The cows are named(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Lanigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr Michael Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Garrynamann Lower, Co. Kilkenny
