School: Guaire (Goorey) (roll number 7929)

Location:
Goorey, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Úna M. Montgomery
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 33

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1124, Page 33

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Guaire (Goorey)
  2. XML Page 33
  3. XML “The Care of Our Farm Animals”

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 care of our Farm Animals. There are horses, cows, sheep, pigs, hens, turkeys, ducks and chickens on our farm. The cows have got names, Daisy Bell, Daisy Bell, Doherty, Grey, and Nuala. The cow house contains ten "stands". It is called a byre. The cows are often tied by the neck and sometimes by the horns. The tyings consist of chains and sometimes ropes. They are mostly all home-made. The stable consists of two "stands" and the fodder is kept on a "loft" above the horses. The horses are taken to the forge to be shod and the farmer clips the horses himself. My two horses are called "Ginie" and "Nelly".
    Whenever a cow is wanted to come in the person calls "Te" and a horse is called by its own name, when the calves are being called, they are called "Prugie". The dog is called by
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lottie Stewart
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Malin, Co. Donegal