School: Killegar (roll number 5684)
- Location:
- Killygar, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Robert Adams
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- We have ten cows, two horses, four calves, eighty hens, three geese, four pigs, two goats, a cat and a dog.
The names of the cows are as follows, Bossy, Ballymagovern, Christmas Eve, Morton, Dairymaid, Daisy, Buttercup, Spotty, Rosy and Strawberry.
When we are driving the cows in or out of a field we say How! How! and sometimes we call the dog and when they see him coming they go on. When we are calling the calves we say Suck! Suck!.
Our cowhouse is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Isabella Margaret Spotten
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumercross, Co. Leitrim
