School: Tighmhanach (roll number 15715)
- Location:
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs E. Jordan
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- (continued from previous page)but there is a rack at one end where the hay and oats are put for the horse to eat. The door is about five feet high and three feet wide. There is a paved floor in it.
A hen house is a small building. There are as many wooden as stone hen houses. The wooden houses are supposed to be more healthy and better ventilated. There are perches or a roost at one end where the hens roost at night, and clean boxes arranged at the other end with a little hay in each for the hens to lay in The houses should be well ventilated.
- An old woman around here named Mrs Mullany told me the following superstitions.If a person gives away buttermilk or salt on May day it is counted unlucky as the fairies would take the butter(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs O' Gara
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mullany
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon
