School: Harristown, Piltown (roll number 13449)
- Location:
- Harristown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)The red and white cows are called roan cows. Cows without any horns are called maol cows.
In some places the people get the priest to pray for the cows and in other places the people hang up Saint Bridgids cross made of rushes in the cowhouse.
The principal diseases from which cows suffer are, Consumption, Milk Fever, Murn, Trasluke, Black Leg and Timber Tongue.The names of the cows in the district are -
Rosie, Sally,
Long Horns,
Crooked Horns,
The Speckled Cow,
The Curly Cow,
The Black Cow,
The Wild Cow,
Whip tail,
Snidour, The Big Polly,
White Legs, The Black Cow,
The Carrick Cow,
The White Cow,
Big Roundy,
The Lamogue Cow,
Mary Ann,
Grey Maol,
