School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)
- Location:
- Cormeen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0707, Page 354
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- On our farm there are a lot of Animals. There are cows, horses, pigs. There is also a great number of fowl, such as, hens, turkeys, geese, ducks.
When you are calling a cow, you say "Puggy, Puggy, Puggy." Cows are milked twice each day, morning and evening. In Winter they are put in at night. A house is got ready for them. There is a manger put at the cows head for hay. They are put seperately with a half-partition between. On the right-hand corner of each division there is a kind of box put for extra that the cow gets. When you are milking and that the cow kicks your say "Therish petty" or "Poor Sucky".
When you are calling a horse you say "Phew, Phew, Phew." A horse works on the land. He(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ella Cooke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Meath
- Informant
- John Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Meath
