School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Ráistín, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 129
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Beat the iron while it is hot
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Buy a bad thing and be without anything
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It is a long road that has no turn
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Courage is half the battle
- Names of farm animals are cows, horses, sheep, pigs, hens, turkeys, geese and ducks. A black cow is called a keey cow. Most of the cows are tied with a chain to a stick stuck in the ground. When a cow is wild the person ties a rope on her leg and horn. When a person is calling the hens he says "quack quack". When calling the turkeys he says"yib yib". When you hear a hen cacking, it is a sign that she is after laying on egg. When a person is putting down eggs to be hatched he puts a mark on the different sorts of eggs
- We have not got a churn. the woman of the house churns. Many strangers come in while churning is going on, they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Shaw
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Shaw
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ráistín, Co. na hIarmhí
