School: Loch Rois (roll number 1751)
- Location:
- Loughros, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Stiofán Ó Braonáin
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- Animals are a very plentiful stock on the farm at home. The most important of those are the cow, horse, Donkey, goat,calf, pig, sheep. There are various names for the cows such as, a polly cow, and a horny cow. The cow house is made of stone with a thatched rood and two doors inside. There are stands which the cows lie on. There are boxes at their heads that they get their hay in. This house is called a byre. The cows are tied around the neck by chains. Sometimes it is with a rope made of a sack and a knott on the end of it. There is also a loop that the knot is put into and that is the way that they are tied.
On Palm Sunday a little branch of palm is left at the cows stakes so as to bring luck to the cows. On St Bridgets day a cross of straw is also left in the byres.
- Collector
- Maggie Mc Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Glenfarne, Co. Leitrim
