Interview with an elderly person

I interviewed Neddy; he grew up in Gurthmore Rosmore Cashel Co. Tipperary in the 1950s. He lived with his brother and two cousins who were orphaned when they were young in a two storey slate house. The house was relatively big for the time.
His parents were farmers and had 120 acres of land some of which was bag land where turf was cut. There were horses, sheep, cows, pigs, chicken, ducks and geese on the farm. They kept 19 milking shorthorn cows which were hand milked twice a day, the milk was taken to the creamery in Turaheen which was five miles away it would take around 40 minutes. The milk was transported by horse and cart. The horses they kept were Clydesdale and Irish Draft. The price of milk was 20 pence per gallon. On average a cow could be milked in five minutes and the average cow would give five gallons. They also kept 15 ewes and three to four pigs which were killed threw out the year; the meat was cured in salt and brown sugar for 3 weeks. Hens were kept for eggs an...