School: Goirtín
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- The farm animals we keep are cows, horses, calves, pigs, sheep and asses. This is what a man says when he is driving cows !How! The bedding we put under the cows is straw and rushes. The cows are tied with chains and the calves are not tied at all.
- Collector
- Nan Grady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyglass, Co. Galway
- When we call the calves we say "suck, suck". When we call the sheep, we say "chof, chof". When we call the pigs we say "furish".
When we call the hens we say "chuck, chuck". When we call the geese we say "Badaidhe". When we call the ducks we say "wheite" - People hang horse shoes in the cows' house for luck. Long ago, after a cow calving, the people would get a piece of a red petticoat, put a coal into it and tie it to the cow's tail. They would get(continues on next page)
