School: Carrowcrin (roll number 16088)
- Location:
- Carrowcrin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs Devine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 346
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- (continued from previous page)a flock of sheep. The sheep grow wool on their backs every year and in the Summer it is cut off and sent to a mill and there is cloth made out of the wool.
In every house there is fowl kept hens, ducks, geese and chickens. The name we call our hens is Tuk. Tuk. When a goose, duck or hen clucks there are twelve or thirteen eggs put under her. Long ago the people put a mark of soot on the eggs so they would know them.
