School: Castletowngeoghegan (C.) (roll number 2093)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Chonaire
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- The name of the animals at home are the cows, calves, horses and pigs. When the people are calling the cows they say 'Prug'. The cow-shed is a large house with a manger at each end. There is a chain fastened to the manger and it is put around the cow's neck to tie her and sometimes a bow is used.
Some people put a piece of palm in the cow shed to bring luck on the animals and sometimes people nail a horse-shoe on the door to protect them from disease.
In the horse-shed there is a manger to put in hay. Sometimes the horse is tied to the manger with a head collar. In summer the men clip the horse with a horse clipper and he is shod at the forge by a blacksmith(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Killalea, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mr James Rabbitt
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Tailor
- Address
- Keelbeg, Co. Westmeath