School: An Mhainistir, Gráinleathan, Baile 'n Locha (roll number 12357)
- Location:
- Garranlahan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An Br. Colmán Ó Fiaich
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- (continued from previous page)also have a place for keeping the nights supply of fodder, hay and straw which feed alternately. A cow-house is sometimes called a byre in other parts of the country but the name is hardly ever used locally around this part of Roscommon where I live. Our cows are tied by a rope having a knot and an eye which is fastened to a chain, the rope being put around the cow's neck and the knot placed through the eye, the other of the chain has a large ring placed around a wooden pole on which it slides up and down according to the animals movements. Some cattle are tied from head to fore foot by a chain having a woven cloth rope home made placed on each end, which are called gads, the rope for tying around the neck is called a "cannish". The chain and gad form of tying, is called side lang, there is another form of tying used by some people called halter tying which is a system of placing a rope halter on the cow and tying to the foreleg.
We have nothing hung in our cow-house for lack but I have heard of people hanging horse shoes and burnt coals, on a May morning after coals had been(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Muircheartach Ó Máile
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Grange, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mícheál Ó Máile
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Grange, Co. Roscommon
