School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0303
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- The farm animals are the cows, horses, sheep pigs and donkeys.
The cows are tied in the stable in winter. The people tie the cows with a rope around the neck to a stake called a ceann neasc.
Sometimes when the people have cross cattle they tie a rope on the horns and to the leg which is called a crom neasc. When the people are milking the cows they put the milk on the cows hips so that the cows will not lose the milk.
One time a person had a cow on the land and every day the people saw a hare coming and taking the milk from the cow. One day the hare was caught milking the cow and when the people were going to kill him he changed into a woman. The people asked her why was she bringing the milk and she said that it was because the people were not putting some of the milk on the cows hips.
- Collector
- Patrick Burke
- Gender
- Male
