School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)

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   When we bring him in we give him turnips [?] and hay and cracked oats. The two smaller ones are fed on milk and flaxseed. They are called the Black Calf and the Roan Calf.

   HORSES

   My father has a stud farm and keeps a good lot of horses. We have a large houses with a great many stables at the back.
   My father bought the farm from Rowleys. We have a number of field where my father trains the horses. Both my daddy and I hunt with the Ballymacad hounds. I have a mare of my own named Trustfull. She is 17 hands high and is brown with a white face. She is 7 years of age and is terribly quick.
   My father has two hunters at present. White legs and The Pet. White Leg is a race horse but has never run yet. He is a bright chestnut and has a white face, and four white socks. That is why he is called White Legs.
   The Pet is a Pet so we call her that. She is a dark chestnut couler. She is a hunter. Buttons is a liver chestnut and is in training at Present. He will make a chaser He is called Button because he would pull

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   E. Leavy

   Address

   New Grove, Co. Meath