School: Ród (B.)
- Location:
- Rhode, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoldomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0801, Page 322
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“In this part of the country farmers pay great attention to their farm animals which are cows, calves, horses, sheep, pigs, hens and ducks.”
(continued from previous page)the whole night. The pigs are greedy animals. Everything they see they try to eat it. But the farmers boil the food for them, and the food they use is potatoes, mangolds, turnips and mangold-beet.
The farmers wife generally takes care of the farm birds. The hens and ducks also eat everything they get. But the food they are given is boiled potatoes and pollard. The food which is given to young ducks is boiled nettles.
Farmers usually have utensils for keeping his animals clean and tidy such as a currycomb a brush, and a machine for clipping the horses.
- Collector
- Philomena Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toberdaly, Co. Offaly