School: An Tuar Mór
- Location:
- Toormore, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 212
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- The farm at home consists of cows, calves, pigs, goats, sheep, horses, hens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. When the cows are being driven in to be milked you say "how how", and the calves come from sucks calling them suck, suck, suck. Some cows have different names such as Pruggie, Polly, Bawney, Daisy and Buinnín breag. There are also different breeds of cows such as Headford, Kerry, Polly, Short-horns, and Bracket, and Stripper.Some cow-house are built of stone and roofed with iron and others built with concrete and roofed with slates and thatch and there are stakes driven down in the ground, a stake for each cow they are tied with chains around the neck. Cows are left out in the pasture during Summer but are tied in in October and fed with hay, oats and root crop until May unless for a few hours each day for a drink.To hang a horse(continues on next page)
