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School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)

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Gortaveha, Co. Clare
Teacher:
P. Wiley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 01_012

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 01_012

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  2. Names of Our Cows

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    a public-house When a cow would calf long ago, the people of the house would do around the milk or the name they used call it was "beastings." Then the person who got it would say "May God increase your store" or often "That your cow may be [?] times better this time next year."
    1) One horn
    2) Jack
    3) Brodericks'
    4) Guney
    5) The blue
    6) The Polly
    The old people had bad ways to tie their cow. They used have posts drove down through the ground, and sugans twisted around
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