School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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- (continued from previous page)very wild and have a habit of breakind out of their own fields and going into a neighbours field in this case their horns and forelegs are tied.
There are many stories told about milk. It is said that if you bring a vessel to the well and a track of milk on it the next person that comes to that well takes your butter and milk.
The horse has a special house too, called a stable. He is foddered every night and morning the hay is put in a manger and he is tied by means of a rope. Every horse gets is hair trimmed now and again, and the hair is put in a hold in the well and afterwards sold to the tinkers.
The people have different names for the animals when calling them to their meals or driving them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Delia Shaughnessy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Corcoran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
