School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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- (continued from previous page)bales, Mr Bryan Valleymount, Mr Copeland Uppertown John.Kirwan Uppertown, and a few others
My father knew a man who used to tie his cows by the horns, when milking them his name was Edward Copeland he lived in Uppertown and he is dead about twenty years.
There is a big wooden cross hung over the cows heads to bring luck on the stock When people in olden times were milking they used sing and whistle and it is supposed that the cows would give there milk more freely. The only people I know who sing when milking are Mrs O Brien Valleymount Mrs Kirwan Uppertown, They only sing rhymes such as "Bó Na leath Adairc" "Cailin Deas cruidhthe na mBó" There are two stables at home and there is a horse shoe hanging over each stall which is supposed to bring on the horses. When I am calling the pigs I say "Hursh"Hursh" Rhode Island Reds are the breed of the hens at home When my mother is setting eggs she puts a mark of ink on them so as that she would know them from others
- Collector
- Bartholomew Grace
- Gender
- Male
