School: Greaghagarran
- Location:
- Greaghagarran, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B.Nic Fhearghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 311
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- (continued from previous page)time of the year, and he had no fodder to give her. He played her up a cune, and this was another; A if she lived till next year, she'd get her fill of fodder. So hearing this, the old cow defied the March cold, but the "borrowed days" killed her. The last fortnight of September, and the month of October, are called the Harvest of the geese, for they are turned out then on the corn fields to pick up the last corn.
They are next put to the potato-fields to gather in all the potatoes that are left, to fatten them for Christmas.
- Collector
- Mary Carolan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
