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School: Cill na Móna (C.) (roll number 13626)

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Kilnamona, Co. Clare
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Síle Céitinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 375

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    in very bad weather, they are fed with hay and turnips.In the early Summer sheep are shorn,as they could not carry their heavy fleece during the warm weather,the wool is brought to the market and sold and is later manufactured into clothes that we wear.The sheep are never housed.
    Goat's milk is very nutritious and rich they are easily fed, because they live mostly on shoots of young bushes.They are very mischievous, because they destroy, cabbage, and young shrubs such as apple trees.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Angela Keane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilnamona, Co. Clare