School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 071
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- (continued from previous page)luck. It is said the cow wont kick if the person that is milking her sings.
- We have two horses whose names are Nell and peggy.
The name of the house in which they are put is called the stable. They are tied with head-collars and from the head-collar there is a piece of rope tied. This rope is then put out through a ring in the manger and to the end of the rope there is a piece of iron tied large enough that it would not go through the ring.
There was a wise horse in this district owned by a man whose name was Glancy. He brought the horse to the bog one day, as they were coming out the car road out of the bog the horse felt himself going down and started to plunge. He knocked the man down and brought the cart across him. As soon as the cart went across the man it turned up side down and(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
