School: Doire na Groighe (B.), An Bhán-tír (roll number 7450)
- Location:
- Doire na Graí, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Caisil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0359, Page 216
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- In the farms are horses, cows, sheep, pigs, goats and occasionally mules and jennets. There are many varieties of fowl. When calling the fowl we say
Tuck tuck for hens
Feen - feen for the ducks
Badhe Badhe for the geese
The call is sup sup for the cows
Suck suck for the calves
Hurush hurush for the pigs.
In calling well trained horses a whistling sound in imitation of the whinny is made.
The in which the cows are house is called a stall. The cows are tied in the houses by what are called stalls and each cow knows its own stall. One timber pillar is fixed and about 9 inches from it is another pillar which is closed up and fastened, by a stirrup shaped iron at the top. Usually the cow houses are wide enough for five cows(in opposite direction) and they are houses with the heads in opposite directions so that the two rows drop the manure in a channel between them. This is either paved or cemented so that it can be brushed. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Con Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cúil Chloichir Theas, Co. Chorcaí
