Hopefully this response is relevant enough to the above topic.

In my childhood on a small farm here in Ireland, the word anger was used for the area of the shed where the cattle fed. Now to try to describe it.
It consisted of a series of sticks/narrow poles, jutting out from the wall at an angle of about 45 degrees. The poles were placed at intervals to enable the cattle to put their head through the gaps and eat the hay. The bottom of the poles were connected to the wall at a height of about 2 feet/60 cm. 

the mangers as depicted in common Nativity scenes would have been ineffectual for feeding a group of animals, as they would have been competing for space.
It would help if I had the drawing skills of Laura Baeza, but I don't. 

Eithne Murray,

Carlow

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