School: Killegar (roll number 5684)
- Location:
- Killygar, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Robert Adams
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0228, Page 277
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“We have eight cows three pigs two horses, sixty four hens, two asses, a dog, two cats, twelve calves, and five ducks.”
We have eight cows three pigs two horses, sixty four hens, two asses, a dog, two cats, twelve calves, and five ducks. The names of our horses are Dolly and Polly.
We have no names on the cats or the pigs or the hens. The names of the cows are as follows the red whitehead, the black whitehead, the big Kerry, the little Kerry, Starry, the red heifer, the broken horn and the heifer.
When we are driving the cows in or of a field we say Bill up and sometimes we call the dog and she drives them into the byre. When we are calling the calves we say(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edith Isobel Faris
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ned, Co. Cavan