School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Ceathrú Mhic Giolla Shúiligh, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 414
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- (continued from previous page)in each stall for the cows feeding. There is a drain in the middle of the byre for the manure, and a back door to barrow the manure out on, it is limewashed every year.
A cowhouse is called a byre.
Some tie the cows with a chain, and others tie them with a spancles, the spancles are not homemade, some cows are tied by the neck, and more are tied by the horns. If the cows are tied from the horns to the legs, they are thieves. Palm is put up in the cowhouse on Palm sunday and people long ago used to tie palm to the cow's tail. The following are calls for animals, chuck, chuck, for the hens, wheetie, wheetie, for the ducks, baddy, baddy, for the geese, yeb, yeb, for the turkeys (the) birdie, birdie, for the chickens, pruggy, pruggy, for the cows, suck, suck, for calves, pock, pock, for the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Droim Ard, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Miss A. Gilhooly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Ceathrú na bPoll, Co. Shligigh
