School: Tighmhanach (roll number 15715)
- Location:
- Tigh Mhanach, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Mrs E. Jordan
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- (continued from previous page)to keep away sickness. Others put palm in them. A stable is built much like a cowhouse but there is a rack at one end where the hay and oats are put for the horse to eat.
We have a special house for the hens. A hen house is a small building. There are as many wooden as stone houses. The wooden houses are supposed to be more healthy and better ventilated. There are perches or a roost at one end where the hens roost at night, and clean boxes arranged at the other end with a little hay in each for the hens to lay in. The houses should be well ventilated.
- There is a family named Sherlock in Brislaugh. One time the father was cutting turf on a bog near by. The place where he was working was a fort. He was near a bush when he found a little house built of stone and wood. He(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Owen Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile na Mainistreach, Co. Ros Comáin
