School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 274
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- (continued from previous page)shoes on him. These will stay on until the harvest. He then gets another set for the drawing of the turf and hay. Old people tell that in olden times the Duffs of Mornan owned a stallion horse which eat a man. The horse's name was Exonion. When he would want a new set of shoes they had to take him to the bog and sink him in the soft ground. He had not so much power then to kick at them. Very young calves need attention and care, cruddled milk on the stomach is fatal that comes from their meals being given at irregular times and too much milk given at a time, five quarts of milk in the day will do for the first three weeks. They chew their cud so after that they can(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
