School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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- When a person is indifferent to whatever speeching you could give [them], the old people say "speech hops off her, like rain off a duck's back."When we have a fine soft day and the ducks are fishing for food and in the grass among the pools the old people say they are "solátharing," and they also say "it's a fine day for ducks and dairymen."
The quills off the goose's wing are plucked before she is sold. Long ago it was the custom to have a Michaelmas goose. It is said that geese are the best watchdogs you could have, as they will always start [cackling] hissing when anybody passes them. When people are chattering away foolishly it is said "they are cackling like a flock of silly geese."When turkeys come out of the shell they are fed on eggs for about a week, after which they get a mixture of curd and nettles and meal.Most people keep a turkey for Christmas.
When people are calling the turkeys they said "tee tee"
When people are calling the geese they said "beadai beadai"
When people are calling the ducks they say "fianna fianna
- Collector
- Cáitlín Ní Miodhache
- Gender
- Female
