School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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- (continued from previous page)If a chicken is not able to come out of the shell, + the shell is chipped, some people take them out of the shell.
If you are not sure whether an egg is birded, get luke-warm water and put the egg into it. If the egg goes down it is rotten + if it floats it is birded. The call for the turkeys is "Yib Yib Yib." The call for the horse is you rattle a bucket, and the horse will think you have oats and he will come for the rattle.
The call for the ducks is "Weet, weet." The little basket or sauspan that would be put on a young calf's mouth is called a musle.
The above is supplied by Mr John Reilly lives in Leggah aged about fourty-four. James Reilly.When we are driving the horses we say "Hee-up" or "Gwan" ("Go on"). There is a place for letting out the pigs outside our pighouse. There(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Donegan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr William Donegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 48
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Meath
