School: Baile Dubh, (C.) (roll number 15541)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhriaghail
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- (continued from previous page)cemented and two doors and windows generally are in it and when people are calling calves they say ;suck, suck'.
The names that are on the horses are 'Charlie' and 'Johnnie' and it is the smith who always shoes them. The house in which they are kept is called the stable and it is usually thatched.
A man named William Scanlon always clips the horses with a machine. The food given to the horses is oats, mangolds, but in the Summer they graze in the fields.
When a person is calling hens, he or she says 'Tuk, tuk' and a person says 'Bee, bee' when calling turkeys. It is said that if a person shakes holy water on hatching eggs, that a chicken will come out of each of the eggs.
- Collector
- Chrissie Tobin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Margaret Tobin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
