School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 273
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- (continued from previous page)near they are expected to say 'God bless the work' In olden times cows were very precious and people tied the cow in the kitchen of the dwelling house. In Summer cows are left out in the fields night and day. They live on grass then. When the cold days come they are tied in at night and given turnips and hay to eat. A horse lives on the same food as the cows. At ploughing time he gets oats in the morning and evening. There is a manger built in the end of the stable with slabs of timber to hold the hay and oats. In the Spring time when the men are getting ready to plough they clip some of the hair off the horse, so he will be cooler while working and they get him to the forge and get a new set of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary J. Mc Guire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Guire
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
