School: Ceannanus Mór, Scoil na mBráthar

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1. How Animals Are Marked in this District

   

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   It is customary for stockbreeders and farmers in this country as in all countries to brand or mark for identification purposes their cattle and sheep. The necessity for this is obvious, for how otherwise would these animals be known by their owners. This precaution is rendered doubly necessary in the case of straying stock or where the enclosures of the pasture lands are defective and permit the stock of different owners to mix. Owners use different methods in branding cattle. Some use a tar-band - generally the initials of the owners name. The brand is put into boiling pitch and then impressed on the hide of the beast.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. animal husbandry (~2,587)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Olohan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Farrell Street, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Mr John Olohan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   47

2. How Animals Are Marked in this District

   

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   When there was no tar to be got long ago people used to brand the sheep with a red hot iron. Cattle are not so fond of straying that is why they are marked on the horn and not on the body.

   

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