School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 03_071
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison
- XML Page 03_071
- XML “Farm Animals”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)spanshal straw ropes.
There is a partition between the cows in the barn for fear they would fight or horn each other. If any of them are cross, tyings are put on their heads and feet which are called crom neaaks.
When my mother is milking them she milks the first few strains of milk on the ground for fear any dirt would be on her teats. She makes the sign of the cross on the cow's hip(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie M. Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Reilly
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Dooros, Co. Mayo
