School: Broca
- Location:
- Brockagh Lower, Co. Leitrim
- Teachers: T. Ó Chioráin S. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0198, Page 402
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- If you have bad luck with cattle and if you are going to sell them then sell one of the cows and buy a sheep. Then your luck will change because you change the hair into wool. The people long ago used to give delph for horses' hair. About a hundred years ago people people used to swop horses for cows. A horse was worth two cows and you would get three calves for a heifer. All the butter was kept in a cool dairy. Then it would be made into firkins and brought to Sligo and sold. People used to put the butter in the bog to store it. Long ago people used used to churn with horses. The horse would walk around outside. This happened about seventy years ago. The people used to grow flax. When the flax grew they pulled it. Then they gathered all the boys to scutch it. Then they would bring it to the weaver to get it made into threads. It is said that the threads made lovely table cloths and shirts. The weaver's name was Tom Walsh.
- Collector
- Kevin Keany
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sranagross, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Keany
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sranagross, Co. Leitrim
