School: Killegar (roll number 5684)
- Location:
- Killygar, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Robert Adams
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0228, Page 279
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“We have eight cows three pigs two horses, sixty four hens, two asses, a dog, two cats, twelve calves, and five ducks.”
(continued from previous page)night and morning. They are clipped once or twice every year. We get the horses shod at the forge in Killeshandra.
When we are calling the hens we say Chuk" Chuk! and we say Wheety Wheety! for the ducks. It is said if you see a straw to a hens tail it is the sign of a stranger coming to the house and it is said it is the sign of a stranger coming to the house of the cock comes and crows at the door.
It is also said it is the sign of a death if the cock is heard crowing on the roost at night. When we are calling the turkeys we say Bee! Bee!
When my mother is setting eggs she puts a mark of ink on them. She would be afraid another(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edith Isobel Faris
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ned, Co. Cavan