School: Cluain Dá Iomaire (roll number 14801)
- Location:
- Cluain Dá Thiompar (Brown), Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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- Farm Stock
There are many animals such are cow, horse sheep and hen.
A cow is a very large animal and is of any colours. She eats grass, hay, cabbage and turnips. She sleeps in a cow-house in the night and she is out all day eating grass. Long ago a cow-house was called a shipen. She usually has a calf each year. There are three names which you can call a cow such are white-head, short horn, and polly. Long ago when a cow calved there was a red rag tied on her tain and there was also the sign of the cross made on her back with a quenched coal.
A horse is a very(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Rabbitt
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Miskell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cluain Bú Beag, Co. na Gaillimhe
