School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)
- Location:
- Mungret, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs B. Mulroy
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- (continued from previous page)keep them once. Their milk is said to be very healthy if they are reared on the mountains. We used to rear lambs on them in the Spring if the mother sheep died.
We have about ten sheep now. Once we had a sheep that had three lambs twice and once four. Some of these lambs were always black. When calling the pigs we say "Murt, "Murt" the calves "Suck Suck" the goats "Gen Gen" the the geese "Baddy Baddy" the ducks Feena Feena the hens "chuck chuck" the cat "Sibby Sibby". The luckiest time for hatching eggs if in the Spring time. It is considered unlucky if the hens are hatching and rising of the eggs. My mother would not sell or give a a setting of eggs while the birds are hatching. Sometimes our ducks hatch out in the ditch or under a fence and these young ducks are always very hardy.
- Informant
- Mrs Keogh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Ballynoe, Co. Limerick
