School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Martha Levis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 240
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- (continued from previous page)and chickens, chick, chick, hens, tuck, tuck, and when driving away hens we say Hi chearc, and when driving away geese we say Hí hag, and when calling them we say theact [?] gé
When people are selling hatching eggs they say it is lucky to give 13 eggs. The cow house which is called the stall, is a large house. It is built of stone and slated, there are two rows of cows one at each side. Each side holds 16 cows. Each cow has about 3ft to her self. There are two timber planks running from each end of the stall to the other one about 5ft over the bottom one. There are battons standing upright in this, two together one is firm in the planks and the other is loose so that it can be moved forward and backwards, the loose one is running through the to plank and each cows head goes through these battons and it is fastened at the top with an iron rod.
The horses are kept in a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Harry Wolfe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanagraigue, Co. Cork
