School: Carn (roll number 12537)
- Location:
- Knocknashammer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Miadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)end of the house and a chain attached to each stake. Down at the cows back feet there is a drain and about six feet from the drain there is a wall there is a wall that divided the cow house from the horses house.
The cows were tied around the horns one time but they are tied by a chain and around the neck at present.
There is a bottle of holy water hung in the cow house, especially when a cow is going to calve. Also a coal is often put under and over her to keep the fairies away. When a cow is milked for the first time after her calving a half penny is put in the bucket. When a cow is eating grass she breathes on every bit three times before she eats it.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mona Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cuilmore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Thomas Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Cuilmore, Co. Sligo