School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)around their days. Those chains are fastened to stakes of wood, which are fixed firmly in the ground.
Palm is usually hung in the cow-house after Palm-Sunday to bring luck on the cows, and for keeping them from dying.
A fodder of hay is given to the cows in Winter in the cow-houses.
Goats are kept on one farm near my home, also geese, ducks, pigs, and hens.
That farm is owned by Mr Long.
There is an other big farm near my home, owned(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Other names
- Máire de Paor
- Mary Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny