School: Cluain an Droma, Mullach (roll number 5267)
- Location:
- Cloonadrum, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Brian Ó Huiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0624, Page 290
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- The farm animals are : the cow , the ass , the horse , the mule , the jennet , the pony , the goat , and the sheep . "How" is said when driving the cow and "triún" is said when calling her . "Suck" is said when calling the calf . "Prou " is said when calling a horse and "go in" is said when driving them and "woe" is said when stoping them . The cow-house is called a cabin or a bocán . Litter is put under the cows during the winter . Straw and coarse hay which they would not eat is used .
Sand is also put under them . The cows are tied with a cord or a chain . A loop is put in one end and a piece of a stick on the other side and it it tied round the cow's neck . Chains with an a on one end of them are also used for tying cows . Cows that go trespassing are tied with a side-line or a ceann nasc . A side line is also put on horses or asses to keep them quiet . The old people used to keep the hooves of any animal that would die in the cabins for luck .(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Laoghaire
- Gender
- Female
