School: Cluain Dá Iomaire (roll number 14801)

Location:
Cloondahamper (Brown), Co. Galway
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0080, Page 296

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    useful animal and is of many colours. He eats hay, grass and oats. He sleeps in a stable at night and he is out all day.
    A sheep has ver warm wool and it does not feel the cold. She has a lamb each year. She eats hay and grass. She is usually washed and sheared in June.
    A hen is a very small bird. She lays an egg each day. She is out all day and in the night she in in a cabin. She eats every ind food. Long ago when they were putting down clutches they used to put holdy water, and they used to get a certain person to put them down and they also put a mark on the eggs.
    A donkey is a very useful animal about the farm. He eats grass, hay and oats. There is the sign of the cross on a donkeys back as it is said that it
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Julia Rabbitt
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Miskell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Cloonboo Beg, Co. Galway