School: Cloncovid
- Location:
- Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Savage
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- (continued from previous page)with are made of iron and each cow is tied to a stake with these chains.
The house in which the horse is kept is called a stable.
In the stable there is a manger in which the hay is left for the horse. The way we call the hens is, "Tchuk Tchuk", calves "Suck Suck", goats "Kiddie Kiddie," and pigs "Cosy Cosy".
There was one time an old woman who was not able to call the hens and she used to go out and crack two porngers together.
When people hatch eggs if thunder comes they put a piece of iron in the nest to keep the birds alive.
The eggs that the birds are in are marked.
Hens are put under pots to take the clocking of them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Thomas Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloncovet, Co. Cavan
