School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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- (continued from previous page)a spade and they children picks them. My father puts the potatoes into heaps and covers then with rushes and then covers them with clay and a shovel.
The potatoes are brought in to a barn during the winter. - My father keeps alot of domestic animals on the farm such as cows, calves, sheep, horses, pigs and alot of fowl.
The cow is the most useful because she gives us milk and she is the one the farmer cares the best.
My father keep five cows on the farm and he feeds them daily with hay and strawThe cowhouse is often called the lyre it is white washed once a year and it is kept very cleanThere is a big long trunk of a tree called a lame going from one side of the wall to the other side and there are four or five big wooden sticks nailed on to it and there are iron chains...(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Martin Mitchell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo