School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)
- Location:
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hugh Mc Kee Fleck
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 534
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- The animals we have at home are cows, calves, horses, pigs, sheep and also a cat and dog. When driving cows into a field you say "How! How!" and when driving calves you say Suggie! Suggie! The cowhouse is a long shape and there are boards nailed together and put up between every two cows. The cowhouse is called a byre. The cows are tied by the neck with chains to stakes. The horses have got names, Tom and Prince. They are foddered twice a day. They are shod once a month, they are clipped once a year in the winter-time. We have also hens and ducks. When you are calling the ducks you call "Wheete! Wheete!" In the spring we set eggs for hatching. You put fifteen under each hen. After three weeks time they begin to "chip". The hens are set away from the fowlhouse, so that the other hen will not fight with them. When the small birds come out they are fed with oatmeal.
Bridget McColgan, 25th February, 1938.
Drumanail, Muff, Co. Donegal.
- Collector
- Bridget Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drummanneill, Co. Donegal
