School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Cill Ghlais, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 414
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- (continued from previous page)We have two cow-houses for our cows. The floor is stoned and there is a window in it. It is built of stone and it is roofed with iron.
Poultry
We keep from seventy to eighty hens. We give them food three times a day. In the Summer they lay about thing thirty eggs and in the Winter they lay five or six eggs.
When a hen begins to cluck, we get a box and fill it with hay and form it in the form of a nest. We then put the eggs in the nest and put the hen on them. We generally pput fourteen eggs under a hen. They are left down for three and then they break theyr shells and come out. They are given oatenmeal at first, but as they get older they are given Indian meal and potatoes mixed with butter milk
Nellie Flanagan
Ruane
Kilglass
Strokestown
- Collector
- Nellie Flanagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rooaun, Co. Ros Comáin
