The family sheep paint branding iron (2019; 90933). Frank M: "Sheep breeding is one of the key farming activities in South Roscommon. One sheep looks more or less the same as every other, so how do you tell one farmer’s sheep from another’s? Simple – after shearing in May, the farmer brands his sheep with his unique paint brand either in red or blue. This paint branding iron is over 120 years old and has been in continuous use to today." --- Copyright 2019 Joachim W. Schroeter (JoWSch). More images of the family farm at www.mylenwyd.com/fourroads. More photography, poetry and other fine things in life by Joachim at www.mylenwyd.com.