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1. The Care of Our Farm Animals (continued)

   

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   but there is a rack at one end where the hay and oats are put for the horse to eat. The door is about five feet high and three feet wide. There is a paved floor in it.
   A hen house is a small building. There are as many wooden as stone hen houses. The wooden houses are supposed to be more healthy and better ventilated. There are perches or a roost at one end where the hens roost at night, and clean boxes arranged at the other end with a little hay in each for the hens to lay in The houses should be well ventilated.

   

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2. Pisreoga

   

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   An old woman around here named Mrs Mullany told me the following superstitions. If a person gives away buttermilk or salt on May day it is counted unlucky as the fairies would take the butter

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mrs O' Gara

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs Mullany

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tivannagh, Co. Roscommon