School: Mághthobair (Mohober), Dúrlas Éile (roll number 7048)

Location:
Mohober, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Mathghamhna
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    cut straw. Any of the following may be used as grain. Cracked wheat with the floury portion sifted off.
    Pin head oaten meal
    Canary seed.
    Millet.
    After one month old they may get the following,
    Small wheat
    Cracked maize or
    Wheat screenings.
    For soft feed.
    Bread squeezed out of milk.
    Oaten meal or Indian porridge dried off with bran and pollard making the food coarse as the bords grow old.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Angie Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockulty, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Miss N. Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    22
    Address
    Knockulty, Co. Tipperary