School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis (roll number 7315)
- Location:
- Inis, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhomhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 232
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- (continued from previous page)When hens are being called to be fed you say "chuck, chuck, chuck". When hunting them you say "Hurrah cuc". When calling ducks you say "Bady bady" and when calling ducks you say "ge, ge, ge" and hunting them you say "hurrah ge."
No marks are put on the eggs when putting them hatching except some mark to show where they were got so that the woman would know whose eggs "came out" and whose did not.
- On a wet day when cattle shelter near a ditch the lean ones are always closest to the hedge and the fat ones are more exposed. Buyers used be able to pick the good ones by knowing this.
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- Collector
- M. Ní D.
- Gender
- Female
