School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Súilleabháin
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- When a cow gets a hard udder people rub goose-grease to it to soften it. They also rub palm-oil and machine oil to it.
- Informant
- Nora Trant
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lissanearla West, Co. Kerry
- A cure for the prevent BLACK-QUARTER, is, when a cow is young, the farmer holes her PROCHALL, that is the long loose dewlap flesh under her throat, he then puts a light very short tarred rope through this hole in the Prochall. He then makes a knot on each end of this short tarred rope so that it will not completely pass through or fall from the Prochall and this was supposed to keep the cow from getting the black-quarter (called in some places) the blue-quarter (also called sprochar (?) dewlap)(continues on next page)
