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School: Drumacruttan (roll number 10282)

Location:
Drumacruttan, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Rreard A. Maclyam
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 224

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  2. The Care of Farm Animals

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    The names of farm animals are. Horses, cows, goats, sheep, donkeys, ponies, pigs, calves, Bulls.
    Our cows at home have got names the mames are. Polly and Dolly, Lucy. Toppsy.
    When you are driving cows in or out of a field you say chay. chay. chay. chay. and when you are driving calves you say suck. suck. suck. suck. The cow house is called a byre cows are tied by the neck with chains. There is a Iron pole up from the floor to the roof and there is a ring in the chain and the ring round the pole
    Some superstitious people tell of Witches who take the form of a hare and run among the cows in the fields and milk them and that is called milking the teather
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thompson Moorhead
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Feragh, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Mr David Thompson
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Feragh, Co. Monaghan