School: An Tuar Mór
- Location:
- Toormore, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)shoe upside down over the door it denotes good luck or to tie a red string on the cows tail is a sign of good luck. When you are milking if anyone passes it is customary for them to say God bless the work or Good luck to the work or if they get a drink of milk they say God bless the cows. It is an old custom to scatter May flowers on the tresold of the byre on May eve and in olden times people used to mix buttercups and May flowers and rub them off the cows udders. It is also a custom when a person has finished milking to make the sign of the cross on the cow with the froth of the milk.The horse is a housed animal in a stable and foddered with hay and oats and sometimes gets a mash of bran and other grain when calling a horse you say "Pseoh" when driving him you say "Gee-up Gee-up" and when you want him to stop you say"wheck" the sound the horse makes is called neighing. the horse is brought to the blacksmith to put on iron shoes on him.Sheep are hardly(continues on next page)
