School: Ballyroddy (roll number 12629)
- Location:
- Ballyroddy, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: -
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0250, Page 160
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballyroddy
- XML Page 160
- XML “The Care of 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
- 160
The care of our farm animals
The farm animals at our home are cows, calves, heifers, bullocks, sheep, lambs, horses, goats and donkeys , sometimes you would see jennets and mules, the domestic animals are cats, dogs, pigs, pet rabbits and ferrets, nearly all cows have names, the name of the town you buy them in, "the Strokestown cow", the name of the man you bought the cow from "Peter Kanes" cow" the "mad cow" having no horns, and when calling a cow to you to be milked you say "pruggly." When driving ohs in or out of a field you say "Hi Ho! Hup"! when driving calves you say "Heist"! How! Hup! The cow house is called a byre and is a large square room with one door and a back window with a shutter, there is a shore running from west to east, and two racks, one facing north and the other south, where we can tie four cows to each rack the roof is zinced and the walls are lime-washed occasionally.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caldragh, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Holmes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Caldragh, Co. Roscommon
