School: Kilmessan (B.) (roll number 4210)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian S. Pléimeann
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- (continued from previous page)of each cow there is a box for her feeding. When a man is calling a calf he says, suc, suc, suc.
The people say if any person kills a pig after thunder the pig will turn black. When a person is calling a pig he says, hurrish, hurrish, hurrish. There are two kinds of pigs black ones and white ones. Pigs eat boiled feeding and mangolds.
When my mother is calling the hens she says chuck, chuck, chuck." Hens make their nests in hay. Every evening my mother gathers the eggs. She leaves an egg in each nest because if she does not, the hens will not lay any more in those nests.
All the cows at home have different names. One cow is called "the kicker." She is called "the(continues on next page)- Collector
- Niall Collier
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Arlonstown, Co. Meath