School: Liathdruim (roll number 1125)
- Location:
- Leitrim, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Francis Meehan
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- On my neighbour's farm, five cows, two year-and-a half-old bullocks, one two-year-old heifer, three yearling calves. He also has a seven-year-old mare. He has two pigs. His wife has one hundred hens, two ducks, and a goose, and one turkey-hen.
None of his stock is pedigree. He has none of the Aberdeen-Angus strain, the rest are Shorthorn breed, and he has not any of the Hereford breed. He has no cow of the great milking-strains, namely Frisian, Jersey, or Kerry. Three of the cows have names - "Spotty," "Polly," and "Magpie." His mare is called "Dolly-Grey." Sometimes when he drives the cows home to be milked, he shouts ":How," "How," and "Hup," to make them move on faster. To call the calves he shouts "Suck," "Suck." The house for the cows is called a "cow-house"(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Leitrim
