School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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- Often a cattle shed was attached to the living house and the cows kept there and over the cows a loft for the hens. The old people told me that the heat of the cattle was good for the hens and that they laid better. Often though the hens roosted on a white thorn bush at the sheltered end of the house.
The horse was always well looked after, had the best stable manger the farmer always loved his horse.
The donkey too so valuable often to the farmer got his own care, and a little house for himself.
Then there were sheds for carts and cars, ploughs and harrows. There were no turf sheds or hay sheds. Turf and hay were put into ricks and straw into stacks.
