School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)

Location:: Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary
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The farmer usually calls his cow house the byre. Farmers differ as regards the tying up of their cows. Some have them tied by the horns, and others bale them with iron clasps around their necks. For the winter months the farmer has his cows comfortably fixed. He makes a bed of furze and places straw over that. He tries to keep it as clean as possible. He white-washes it occasionally. When we get the Easter water we shake it all over the place and on all the stock to keep them healthy. Most of the farmers keep a sheep dog for the purpose of driving in and out the cows. The cows understand the farmer's call. When he is turning them in he says "how how come in" and when coming out he repeats the same words. The fowl kept by the farmer are turkeys, geese, ducks, hens. Fowl vary in the time they take to hatch their eggs: the turkey, goose and duck take a month and the hen three weeks. The old people believed in putting a cross on the eggs with a burnt stick. A piece of iron is thought to be of great value in case of thunder or lightning for the noise of the thunder is supposed to kill the bird in the egg. Mona Dunne, Ballyvadlea, Mullinahone. Told by Mrs. Dunne, Ballyvadlea, Mullinahone (Aged 45 years. Farmer's Wife)
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Topics
1. activities
  economic activities
  agriculture (~2,659)
  animal husbandry (~2,587)
Language

English
Collector
Mona Dunne
Gender

Female
Address

Ballyvadlea, Co. Tipperary

Informant
Mrs Dunne
Gender

Female
Age

45
Occupation

Farmer's wife
Address

Ballyvadlea, Co. Tipperary