School: Gleann an Chairthe (roll number 13345)
- Location:
- Glencar, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Mag Ualghairg
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- Our farm is situated in the townland of Townamoyle. It consists of sixth acres of land. On our farm we keep nine cows and nine calves and two mares and a foal and eight heifers and a bull, twelve sheep and eleven lambs and two asses.
In the summer time the cows lie out at night but in the winter they have to be housed. The place where the cows are housed is called a byre. The names of our cows are, the Fox cow, Sharp's old cow, Young Sharp, the Dermot cow Deny's cow, Young Deny, The Walsh cow the heifer Rakecroft's cow. We also keep two mares the old mares name is Dolly and the young mare's name is Daisy. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Brendan Ruddy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tawnymoyle, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Bernard Ruddy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Tawnymoyle, Co. Leitrim