School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0097
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- Horses and SheepNearly every farmer keeps two horses for ploughing and for doing the hard work. When they are ploughing and working hard they get hay and oats and sometimes boiled potatoes. Some people trim their horses in spring.
When a man is training a young horse he puts on breaking tacklings and he walks him out around the roads. When he is quiet the cart is put on him. If a horse shoe is found lost it is hung up over the door because it is supposed to have luck.
There are generally goats kept with sheep because they are supposed to eat poisonous herbs that would kill sheep and would not harm themselves. In winter when the grass is scarce the sheep get turnips and mangolds. In spring when the ewes have(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John H. Fahy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
