School: Dunlavin (B.)
- Location:
- Dún Luáin, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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- (continued from previous page)Most of our cows have names and some of them are. "White Stockings" Web Spin" "Golden Ball "Flint Horn" "Bess" "The" Polly" and some others White Stockings got her name because her legs are white and her body is brown and Flint Horn got her name from having one big thick horn and one small horn. Web Spin got her name from having one big webbed Spin. I do not know how the others got their names because my father bought them from people in the fairs of Dunlavin and Baltinglass. All the cows at home are quiet and easily milked, There are three cow houses at home and they hold seven cows each The length of each house is twenty one feet,
When I am bringing the cows to the pasture I say "Bale Home" "Bale Home" and when I am calling the calves I say "Suck" "Suck" The cows at home are tied about the neck with chains,
Bales were the old way of tieng cows and nowadays you would seldom see bales used at all. Chains are the usual way of tieng cows nowadays. The following are a list of men whom I know to use(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bartholomew Grace
- Gender
- Male
