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School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)

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Brierfield, Co. Galway
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Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 139

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    between the ass and the horse. The ass being the sire in this case and the horse the dam. There is no animals so surefooted as the mule being used for climbing mountainous regions and descending slops. It is fed like the horse having great strains. The dog is a very useful little animal for driving and flocking sheep. It is very docile and affectionate little animal and would travel long and unexployed regions for the being for the home it lives. Each dog has a name and is very quick to respond to that name when called being a very sagacious animal.
    Margaret Mulry
    Dangan St Gorm
    Deeren
    Ballyglunin
    Co Galway
    Got from Thomas Devaney, Dangan St. Gorm (60)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Mulry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thomas Devaney
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway