School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)
- Location:
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Peoples
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1091, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)When a man is training a horse he puts on the cart harness and walks about with him for some time until he gets used to the harness on his back. He is then attached to the cart.
When calling hens you say "tioc tioc",
When we are calling on ducks we say "Wheet wheet," when we are calling on turkeys we say "Peep Peep Peep" or when we are calling Geese we say "Goosie Goosie".
When we call on sheep we say "Thura Thura" or when calling dogs we say "coolie coolie" or cats we say pushy pushy.
Maggie Carr
Told by my brother Neil Carr, Glinsk, Carrigart, Co Donegal, Age 28 years, A farmer. Born in Doaghmore
Reared in Glinsk
Spent his life in Glinsk
- Collector
- Maggie Carr
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glinsk, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Neil Carr
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 28
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Glinsk, Co. Donegal
