School: Drumacruttan (roll number 10282)
- Location:
- Drumacruttan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Rreard A. Maclyam
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- XML “The Potato Crop”
- XML “The Care of Farm Animals”
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- The names of farm animals are. Horses, cows, goats, sheep, donkeys, ponies, pigs, calves, Bulls.
Our cows at home have got names the mames are. Polly and Dolly, Lucy. Toppsy.
When you are driving cows in or out of a field you say chay. chay. chay. chay. and when you are driving calves you say suck. suck. suck. suck. The cow house is called a byre cows are tied by the neck with chains. There is a Iron pole up from the floor to the roof and there is a ring in the chain and the ring round the pole
Some superstitious people tell of Witches who take the form of a hare and run among the cows in the fields and milk them and that is called milking the teather(continues on next page)- Collector
- Thompson Moorhead
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Feragh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr David Thompson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Feragh, Co. Monaghan