School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)

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1. My Home District (continued)

   

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   it is called the Alloe, there is a stream also running through the townland into the Alloe, it is called the "Glosha".

   

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2. Farm Animals

   

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   The farm animals around here are, cows, calves, horses, goats, pigs, and sheep together with hens, ducks, turkeys, and geese. Nearly every farmer here has names on the cows and here are some of them, "Callaghan", "Buckley", "Curtin", "Jeffery", "Burke", "Paulin", "Black [?]" "Yellow Nancy", "Kicker", "Norket", "locked-horns". "young giant". "Snaily" "beauty", "Jack", "Cagnie", "Cran", "The Cadger", "Nunan", "Weathers", "Leahy", Paul" "Joe", The Black" "Nadd" "Goggin" and "Rosy".

   They also names on the horses such as "Old Tom" "Dan" "Sonny" "The Grey man" and "Lord Muskery" When driving cows they say "how-how" and when they are calling them they say "huff-huff". WHen they are calling sheep they say "Ba-Ba" and when they are calling the bonhams they say "Bon-Bon". When they are calling pigs they say "hurris-hurris" and when they are driving them they say "cudgca". When they are calling the calves they say, "sook-sook" and when they are driving them they say "sook-on" When they are driving the horses they say "fuff-fuff" When calling goats they say "Kiddie-Kiddie" and when hunting them, some people say "hes-goat, whilst others say "hiscore" or "[?]". Some people here keep a "puck" goat with

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. animal husbandry (~2,587)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas O' Connor

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gooseberryhill, Co. Cork