School: Gleanntán
- Location:
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0383, Page 110
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- 2. The farm and domestic animals are horses, pigs, sheep, cows, calves, goats, ducks, hens, geese, and chickens."Calls"
When calling pigs bon, bon, is said, and when driving them hurish, hurish, is said. When driving cows how, how, is said. When calling calves suck, suck is said. When calling goats bet, bet, is said. When people are calling hens they say tuk, tuk, and when they are calling ducks they say feen, feen. When calling turkies people say tee tee."Names of Cows"
In Mrs. Gleeson's stall there are twenty four cows, and some have names. There is a cow called "Horny" another "Maol" another "Caít Hopper" another "Fían", and another Breachie. The cow house is called the stall. It is very long with three or four doors to it. There is a bale for each cow with the cows name written over it, and each cow knows her own bale. The bale is two long poles and a hook is pulled over from one pole to the other. The tyings are made of iorn.
The carpenter generally makes the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
