School: Lattoon
- Location:
- Lattoon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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- XML “The Care of Our Farm Animals”
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- (continued from previous page)The horse is called Tom. When driving the horse the people say "go on Tom". There is a manger and a feed, feed, box in the stable. There are ventilateres on the stable. The fodder consists of hay and oats. The hay is left in the manger and the oats is put in the feed box. Most of the horses around this district are brought to the forge to be shod. Sometimes the farmer clips the horse himself and sometimes he pays a man to do it. The first horse was caught in the woods and tamed.
The calls for the various kinds of animals are "Tioc, Tioc", for hens, "chick, chick" for chickens, "weat, weat", for ducks, "biadh, biadh" for turkeys, "trish, trish" for cows, "peo, peo" for horses, "suckie, suckie" for calves, "sherry, sherry" for sheep and "kiddie, kiddie" for goats. These calls are very common and very ancient.
To hear a hen crowing is said to be the sign of bad luck and to hear a rooster crowing before twelve o'clock is said to be the sign of something tragic which is going to occur about the house.
When hatching a hen first of all you put a bed of hay in a box and then you put the hen in it and put the eggs(continues on next page)- Collector
- Margaret Mc Intyre
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismeen, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Eddie Mc Intyre
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lismeen, Co. Cavan