School: Streamstown (roll number 15291)

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1. Farm and Domestic Animals (continued)

   

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   milking her, her legs are tied and the people say that the cows are fettered.
   Sometimes a cow who is "roguing" is stopped by placed placing a piece of cardboard over her eyes. The horses are called by different names also, each horse has a name of its own. The horse's food consists of hay, oats, turnips and mangolds. Oats is his favourite tit-bit and he eats it out of a special bag tied around his neck.
   There are various ways of calling the animals. When we are calling or hunting the goats we say "Gabhar gabhar". When we are calling the hens we say "Tuc, Tuc, Tuc" and when we are hunting them we say Hi - cearc. The call we use fort he ducks is "Weet, Weet", for the geese, Hi-ge and for the turkeys "Yib yib yib."
   The cats and dogs are perhaps the most domesticated we animals we have. They have different names and when we are calling them we call them by their names or whistle for them. When we are calling the cat we say "pus puss" and when we are getting tired of Puss

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mona Montgomery

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Streamstown, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Patrick Scott

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   78

   Address

   Streamstown, Co. Westmeath