School: Lacken (C.), Cill Mhichíl (roll number 13827)
- Location:
- Lacken, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaonaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0602, Page 050
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)bonham so that the sow would not lie on it. When she would have the last farrowed they would be all left into her and left there till they would be strong enough to go out.
The hens slept in a loft over the entrance door, and those that had eggs were put into a "coop" to lay. When they were putting the hen hatching they used mark the stale eggs from the fresh ones with soot. The goats used to sleep in the smallest room in the house. They used to get stuff in the bogs called "fíonán" and that used to do bedding for the animals.
When a cow died they would hang the bones of the legs under the smoke so that any more would not die. When a person was driving the cows he said, "How" "How". When a pig was being called "Hurish" was said. To a calf "suck" "suck" was said, To the hens "chuck" "chuck". To the turkeys "Bea" "Bea" To the goats "meg" "meg" was said. When the dog was sent after a cow that was theiving they said "Hera bó bó".
- Collector
- Margaret Brogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmihil, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael Brogan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Kilmihil, Co. Clare
