School: Sooey (roll number 6249)
- Location:
- Súmhaí, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Seán Ó Hóráin
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- The care of our farm animals
The following is a list of our farm animals, cows, calves, pigs, a horse, turkeys, geese, hens and ducks. Some of the cows have got names such as - the high horn, the scotch, Manerhamilton, Thomas' cow, Dromahair and mag-pie, as for the horse his name is "Pride".
While the farmer is driving the cows or calves to or from the meadow-field, he can be heard shouting after "How". The cow-house is called a byre and inside of it, half of the cows are tied to a stakes or iron rails and the rest to put on the opposite side. The byre has to be made a certain length and breath according to the number of cows which the farmer has it that each of them may have enough of place to be in. Each night they(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sheila Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chluanach, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mrs Beirne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chluanach, Co. Shligigh