School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 039
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- Our farm animals at home are the cows, the horse, and the ass, The names of our cows are Salley and Daisy.
The cowhouse is divided into two parts by a channel.
There are stakes in the cowhouse to which the cows are tied with a spancel.
The cowhouse is called a byre. The cows are tied by the neck. The ties are made of ropes and chains.
They are not home made. The customs connected with milking cows are : - to made the sign of the cross on the cow's leg with the froth of the milk when they are after milking them
Some people put a penny in a can when they are milking a young cow for the first time.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Joe Gormley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockmore, Co. Sligo
