School: Convent of Mercy, Athlone
- Location:
- Athlone, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Sr Regis
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0749, Page 146
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Convent of Mercy, Athlone
- XML Page 146
- XML “Animals”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- AnmalsThe farm and domestic animals commonly known are the cow, horse, ass, calf, goat, pig, dog, cat, hen, duck, goose, turkey, chicken.
Hornless cows are colled 'Maol' or 'Pollys'. They are named from their colour or generally the fair at which they bought, e.g."the whitehead", "the Moate cow". When calling the cows they say 'Twig' (phonetic). The cow-houses are called cabins. Cows are tied by a narrow iron band round the neck and closed behind the ears. Their horns are tied if they show a fondness for using them, their feet are sometimes tied if they(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr J. Gavin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Auburn Terrace, Co. Westmeath
