School: Mounttrenchard, Leamhchoill (roll number 2540)
- Location:
- Mounttrenchard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Nuanáin
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- The Care Of Our Farm Animals.
The following are the names of our farm and domestic animals at home:-
cows, horses, calves, foals, goats, pics, dogs, cats, hens, geese, chickens and ducks. The way in which we distinguish our cows is by calling them after the people we bought them from. Our cows are names as follows:- McKenery's, black, big Stacks, Polly, Small Stack, Mack's cow, Wrens cow, McKenery's red, red and white cow, Black and white cow, grey heifer, red heifer and McMahon's cow. When we are driving the cows we say "How-how" and when calling them we say "pi-pi" or "bully-bully".
The walls of the cow house are built with stones and(continues on next page)- Collector
- Helen O' Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowbane More, Co. Limerick