School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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- (continued from previous page)old you will get about eight pounds for him.A pig is used for many a thing, sometimes she is killed and eaten, some other times she rears bonams and then when the bonams are about ten weeks old they are brought out to the fair and they are sold. When you are calling a pig the words you should use are !I wish! and when you are driving her away you should say "Spuk".A donkey is a very useful animal of the farm. He does the same work as the horse. He eats grass, oats and hay. In Winter he is kept in a cabin and in Summer he is let out in the fields night and day. The ass is very badly treated beside any of the other animals. The donkey likes carrots or turnips very much. The donkey is very strong(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laurence Mullin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brierfield South, Co. Galway
- Informant
- William Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brierfield South, Co. Galway
