School: Christian Bros., Drogheda (roll number 16718)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Ó Siordáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 029
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 1. The animals of the farm we have are, cow, horses, pigs, sheep, and goats.
2. The names of the cows are jerseys, pollys, white-heads and roawans.
3. The bedding is of straw
4. The bulls are left loose in the shed.
5. The cows are tied to a rail which is over their heads and is called a neck-rail.
6. The cows are milked at seven oclock in the morning and at four in the evening.
7. Some of the finest horses come from Ireland. When they are a year-old they are sent to the racing stables, If the owner wishes, and the greatest race-horses ever known of.
8. The sheep are put in a pen, in the middle of a field. If you walk over the Newtown road you will see a pen in the shade of a small wood.
