School: Clonmore, Piltown (roll number 13420)
- Location:
- Clonmore, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Aodhgáin
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- (continued from previous page)make the sign of the cross on them with a burnt stick. They do that for luck.
- The names of the farm animals are the cow, the goat, the horse, the ass. the pig, the sheep, the dog, the cat. On Mr White's farm most of the cows have names such as Polly, Blacky, and Bella. When people are calling cows they say "pooey pooey" and when driving them they say "How How".
Around here hardly any of the farmers have sheep. When goats are called to be milked or anything else people say "Gin Gin". The place where the cows are milked is called the cow house. When they are being milked they are spanseled so that they could not kick. The rope thats tied around a goats leg is called a lang.
The horses house is called a stable . When calves are being called to be fed people say "suck, suck. In very farm house there is a large number of fowl. These are called by saying "tioch tioch". When people(continues on next page)
