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School: Leargán Buidhe (C.) (roll number 14289)

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Larganboy East, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire, Bean de Priondargás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0110, Page 438

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    should also put a penny into the first drink you give a cow after calving.
    After a cow calved long some performed a curious ceremony around her with a woolen thread and a coal of fire. The cows nose was touched with the fire, and it was then passed over her head and along her back and then under and around her three times. An old man named John Carney lived in this village about ten years ago. He and his wife were both very old and they had a heifer that had just calved. They went to the stable to perform the rite, but the cow became so infuriated
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. butter and churns (~3,280)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Waldron
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Reask, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mr John Waldron
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Reask, Co. Mayo