School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- (continued from previous page)guess correctly he puts it on his back and leaves it there until some-thing else comes to it.
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We have cows, pigs, an ass, and a horse at home. The names of the cows are msoilin and bo-breac. When a man is driving the cows he says haba, gab amac. Rushes and old straw is put for bedding. Their tyings cromnasc, uaircean. A horse-shoe is nailed to the cowhouse door for luck.
The hens are called to their feeding cioc, cioc. The ducks are called fuit-fuit. The pigs are called kuris and the calves are called suc, suc, and the lambs are called Ma,Ma.
