School: Skeoghvosteen, Goresbridge (roll number 16140)
- Location:
- Skeaghvasteen, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conchobhair
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- On our farm at home we keep horses, cows, calves, sheep, pigs, an ass, dogs, cats, and fowl.
We call the cows names to distunguish them when we are talking about them among ourselves. The names are Farrells cow, Murrays cow, the Horney cow, the big heifer, Rosey, the black cow, Nancy, the strawberry cow, the little cow, the white cow, the speckled cow, and the Kerry cow.
The word we usually say when driving cows in or out of a field is "Hie - hie".
Our cowhouse is a long, low, zinc house in which fifteen cows can fit. The cows are tied with chains, looped around the necks, to posts driven down in to the ground. When cows are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Dowling
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Annaleck Lower, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Thomas Dowling
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annaleck Lower, Co. Kilkenny
