School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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The cows are tied by the necks to these chains. The farmer feeds the cows morning and night and he keeps them in all the night in the winter but he lets them out in the summer. The farmers takes alot of care of the cows because they are very useful and they give fine rich milk.
It is out of this milk that the butter is made and the buttermilk is very wholesome for anyperson to drink.
In olden times the people used to use the horns of cows as drinking vessels
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- Collector
- Mary Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Martin Mitchell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Carrigeenblike, Co. Sligo