A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’.
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Speaker: At my dad's was all round, and- well we built- the building part was built the cow-byre after my- after my time. I was about eleven year old when they built the building, like built the inside of the building. You-know the cow-byre? Where you put the cows in? |
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. |
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Interviewer: Like, what would you call the building that you kept the cows in, then? Speaker: We, ah- they called it- the Scotch people called it cow-byre. (laughs) Interviewer: Is that what you called it? Speaker: Cow-byre. Interviewer: You called it that, did you? Speaker: Oh, yeah. |
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. |
Interviewer: Yeah. You said you had another building for the calves though. Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: What did they call that? Speaker: Well, the calf-house. (laughs) Interviewer: The calf-house, not the byre? Speaker: No. |
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. |
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People milked out in the byre- out of the byre and then out at the barnyard we called it. And these- (inc) is still there. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Nice clean place. Interviewer: Mm-hm. So we were going through the buildings weren't we? You've got your- the barn that has the cow byre with it. |
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. |
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Interviewer: I see. And then what do they call the upper part of the- the barn like that? Speaker: That's the barn, up there. Interviewer: The which? Speaker: That's- (laughs) the upper part is the barn, and the upper part is the cow- is the cow-byre. Interviewer: The- the lower part's- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: The cow-b-- Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. The cow-byre, yeah. Interviewer: The cow-byre. Was the- was the cow-byre sometimes separate from the barn? Speaker: Oh yes. That's the proper way to have it too. |
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. |
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Speaker: And the cattle the horses was in the bottom and the loft on top. Interviewer: What did you call that shed? Speaker: Stable, cow byre. Interviewer: Okay. Um now where would the ah- where would the cows g-- go out to ah to graze? Speaker: Well, it was around- they had to have ah- it was a field someplace, you-know. Fenced. We could turn them out in the daytime, bring them in. |
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. |
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Interviewer: Um what about the um- the building that you'd keep the cows in then? What would it be called? Speaker: That would be the cow byre. Cow byre, that's what they called it. Now they- they don't call it that now you-know. They call it the- well it's just the barn. But it used to be the cow byre. |
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. |
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And the pigs, they uh, they had a- a- a place of their own w- what's it called, pig-sties I guess- And uh, and the cows, they'd be in the cow-byre and the horses would have the horse-stable- |
A cow-house. Perh. in Old English times, more generally, ‘a shed’. |
