School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna (roll number 10079)

Location:
Newmarket, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Bean Uí Nialláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 286

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  3. XML “Farm Animals”

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  1. The animals that are found in the farm are Cows, calves, horses, pigs, bonhams, sheep, goats.
    Long ago the cow was supposed to have lived in forests and other wild places.
    From about the first of May until the first of November the cows on the farm are left out in fields during the night and they feed on the grass.
    In Winter time they are kept in their houses which are known as stalls.
    They are fed with hay or hayseed or straw and when milking time comes they get mangolds or turnips or beet sliced or pulped with a mixture of meal or someother such food.
    The cows are milked
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie Murphy
    Gender
    Female