School: Ballyporeen (roll number 15134)
- Location:
- Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: L. Ó Conchubhair
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- (continued from previous page)both of Lisfuncheon. This horse won races all over Ireland and America and no other jockey could manage hi, . There are always some fowl kept in the farmyard such as hens geese and Turkeys. When the women are calling the hens they say Doock-Doock-Doock. They say Bee-Bee-Bee when calling the turkeys. They say baddee-baddee when calling the geese.
- This is a list of animals, a horse a cow a sheep a dog a cat and a goat. I have heard a lot of names of cows. Cappoquin, Mitchelstown, Cahir, the little black, the reds, and the herry. I often heard people use the words how, bring em on. Most cowhouses are made of concrete walls and sheet iron roofs. I do not know any other name for it. Almost all cows are tied. Some are tied around the neck with chains more are tied around the horns with ropes. I often saw a horseshoe in the cowhouse for luck.
- Names of farm animals cows, horses, pigs, calves, donkeys, pony, dogs, cats, goats and sheep. The names of cows are bullybell, Buttercup, Star-Barry, Magpie, Kerry Cow, Flathorns, and backed horns. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael O' Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraleigh East, Co. Tipperary
