School: Boston, Tubber (roll number 10763)
- Location:
- Boston, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Thos. Noone
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 110
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- We rear a great many animals at home, namely:- cows, horses, asses, sheep, calves, goats, dogs and cats. We have four cows and we call them no special name, except according to their colour. When driving the cows we say:- "how" hurra ba" and "ha bó" The calves and yearlings have no name either except by their colour.
The house where the cows are kept is called the cowhouse. The people have many different ways for bedding namely, straw, sedge, grass, ferns, or heath. In olden times ferns and heath were the most common bedding. There are many different ways for tieing cows. Some people have stalls with chains tied on to a stick. They tie the chain around the neck or horn of the cow. Others have an ash stick from one wall to the other. There are two boards stuck down through the stick so that they stir over and hither on top. They push these sticks apart so that the cow's head can go in. When the cow's head(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lena Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Francis Cunningham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Magheranraheen or Rockforest, Co. Clare
