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Bits of geography information you remember from primary scho

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    cml387 wrote: »
    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    *raises hand*

    Sugar beet factories

    Gone now though :(

    beaten to it, damn you baggy trousers!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭Daenarys


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

    Same!! Feckin igneous & sedimentary rocks and cirrus & cumulus clouds :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    stankratz wrote: »
    Our geography teacher gave us the following memory aid as 12/13 year olds:

    "When the mites go up, the tites come down."

    He meant 'mites' as in hands, and 'tites' as in pantyhose.

    It was a useful memory aid, but cemented his reputation in my book as a creepy bastard.

    Bow holes must have been interesting in his class.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭cml387


    Sugar Beet!

    Correct.

    The sugar factories always had a special little symbol. Each major town had it's own little symbol. Mullingar had a small packet of cigarettes, indicating a tobacco factory (which is still there nearly 50 years later:)).


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    I remember doing the meanings of placenames, as in anything with "Cill" in it meant it had a church and that kind of thing. Always found it interesting, it mixed geography with history and Irish so it was a nice mix.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Clints and grikes.

    Karst landscape.


  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    cml387 wrote: »
    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    For some reason, I'm thinking "sugar"...??


  • Registered Users Posts: 49,731 ✭✭✭✭coolhull


    Pollaphouca means the ''Ghost's Hole''


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    Meangadh wrote: »
    I remember doing the meanings of placenames, as in anything with "Cill" in it meant it had a church and that kind of thing. Always found it interesting, it mixed geography with history and Irish so it was a nice mix.

    Very good; Cill, Lis, Dun, Rath, all coming back to me.

    Had a very good geography teacher who also taught us about Welsh placenames. Aber was mouth of a river, Afon was river and Llan was church.

    Amazing how much you would retain.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,767 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Transhumance. Something to do with animals going up and down mountains in Switzerland.

    Irish Primary geography - the map on the back of the copies my kids used, map of europe, it was the most badly drawn map you could imagine and had several countries wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭cml387


    I remember our primary school teacher pointing out proudly that the Shannon was the longest river in Britain or Ireland, as if it was some sort of competition.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic.

    Said in a sing-song sort of voice. Our teacher was odd. Looked a bit like Max Von Sydow in Flash Gordon. Naturally we called him Ming the Merciless.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    cml387 wrote: »
    I remember our primary school teacher pointing out proudly that the Shannon was the longest river in Britain or Ireland, as if it was some sort of competition.

    Sadly, can remember as a child being annoyed that the Barrow was the second longest and not the Suir (grew up close to it). Your teacher wasn't the only competitive geek.:o


  • Registered Users Posts: 49,731 ✭✭✭✭coolhull


    To remember the Great Lakes, we were told to think HOMES

    Lake Huron
    Lake Ontario
    Lake Michigan
    Lake Erie
    Lake Superior


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I remember doing history when I was a kid and studying Fionn mac Cumhaill and Cu Chualain like they really existed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    Cirque, coom, glacial valley, scree. Good times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Loved it in school, surprisingly I remember a lot.can't say that about many subjects.

    I got an A in higher level geography so I was delighted.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,752 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia existed.
    12 countries in the EEC.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭cml387


    I was just astounded that you could have such a thing as an ordnance surey map that showed your own house! My favourite bit of the course was examining the map and establishing that Coumshinaun was not visible from Lough Modhra, and calculating the distance from Sutton's Cross roads to Monageesha.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,752 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Loved it in school, surprisingly I remember a lot.can't say that about many subjects.

    I got an A in higher level geography so I was delighted.

    Loved it too.
    Was an A level geography student until the leaving where it was mostly people who didn't want to learn which affected my learning.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    cml387 wrote: »
    Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWh1n5k9xE8


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭Queenalocin


    We used to follow the Irish Ships around the world .

    Irish Shipping was a Irish-government owned shipping company and they had about 20 deep-sea ships , all named after trees :

    Irish Cedar
    Irish Larch
    Irish Spruce
    Irish Elm etc

    that was in 5th / 6th class
    I think you are the only other person I have met who remembers that, now they are all girl's names: LE Róisín, LE Aoife etc..

    Suck, Inny and Brosna!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Uncle Ben


    Indepth study's of Youghal on a OS map.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Asarlai wrote: »
    Thurles is a marketing town, as is Cashel and the smaller town of Roscrea.

    While we're on Tipperary, Nenagh in Irish is Aonach Urmhúmhan meaning 'The fair of Ormond' (Ormond meaning east Munster) named so because it held the east Munster fair which was essentially a massive market for the burgeoning agricultural trade which surrounded the town..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭GobBass


    Every capital of every country in the world by the age of eight.

    I'm still feeling the effects of what direction my life took after learning them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania = Tallin, Riga, Vinius. Knowing the capitals of those countries hasn't helped me in any way shape or form but fúck it, I remember...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 150 ✭✭_Jumper_


    Gweedore is in Donegal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    GerB40 wrote: »
    Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania = Tallin, Riga, Vinius.
    And a good way of remembering the locations of each country, as we were taught, is that Latvia (the most interesting country) is the meat in the Baltic sandwich.

    Many African Tourists Love Elephants was another one -- a mnemonic formula denoting the 5 North African countries from west to east: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.


  • Registered Users Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Arbitrary


    Meangadh wrote: »
    I think a lot of people here are recalling what they learned in secondary school geography and not primary school.

    Wait a minute. Re-reads thread title (this time going past the first five words I read). Oh. Okay


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭Fagashlil


    coolhull wrote: »
    To remember the Great Lakes, we were told to think HOMES

    Lake Huron
    Lake Ontario
    Lake Michigan
    Lake Erie
    Lake Superior

    We knew it as Smelly Men Have Eaten Onions!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    For European geography.....

    Long legged Italy kicked poor Sicily into the Mediterranean sea........


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    For European geography.....

    Long legged Italy kicked poor Sicily into the Mediterranean sea........

    ...Austria was Hungary, took a bit of Turkey, dipped it in Greece, fried it in Japan and ate it off of China!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Actually that reminds me, I loved this song when I was a young wan. Always remembered loads of the states of America cos of it.



    Lyrics:

    Oh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
    What did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
    She wore a brand New Jersey,
    She wore a brand New Jersey,
    She wore a brand New Jersey,
    That's what she did wear

    One, two, three, four
    Oh, why did Cali-fon-ia
    Why did Cali-fon
    Why did Cali-fon-ia
    Was she all alone

    She called to say Ha-wa-ya
    She called to say Ha-wa-ya
    She called to say Ha-wa-ya
    That's why she did call

    Uno, deis, tre, quattro
    Oh what did Missi sip boy
    What did Missi sip
    What did missi sip boy
    Through her pretty lips

    She sipped a Minne sota
    She sipped a Minne sota
    She sipped a Minne sota
    That's what she did sip

    Where has Oregon boy
    Where has Oregon
    If you wan Al-ask-a
    Al-ask-a where she's gone

    She went to pay her Texas
    She went to pay her Texas
    She went to pay her Texas
    That's where she has gone

    Well how did Wis-con-sin boy
    She stole a New-brass-key
    Too bad that Arkan saw boy
    And so did Tenne-see

    It made poor Flori-di boy
    It made poor Flori-di, you see
    She died in Miss-our-I boy
    She died in Miss-our-I
    Oh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware

    Fun little song! :P


  • Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭DakarVert


    Never Eat Shreaded Wheat. (North, South, East, West)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    The Panama Canal.

    Cool temperate oceanic climate.

    Latitude and Longitude.

    The MacGillicuddy Reeks.

    Mt. Everest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,202 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Brest, a town in France...








    I was kinda tuned out for the rest of it, so that's all I remember.


  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    I remember wanting to find out more about Africa when the teacher put a collection box for the black babies on the window sill in the classroom


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    Bituminous schists.

    Never did manage to get me some.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Cumulus clouds ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 987 ✭✭✭The Royal Scam


    Knockmealdon down the Blackstairs


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭Duddy


    Letterkenny is the fastest growing town in the EEC!!

    Shows you how little there was in Donegal when I remember being star-struck by this...


  • Registered Users Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    I really liked the atlas I had which had a small map of Ireland in the corner which showed the size of Ireland compared to whatever country was on the page. I found that very useful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I learned all the capitals, highest mountains, longest rivers and international dialling codes for every country in the UN when I was about ten.

    I had a very lonely childhood


  • Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭Seanf999


    I know a meander when i see one..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    Ireland would sink without a cork in it....

    Civilisation rises in the rest of Ireland.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Dublin, Dun Leary, Skerries and Balbriggan.

    Said in a monotone, rhythymical fashion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,551 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    The Burren is a Karst region

    Ireland's weather is mild, moist and variable


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Ireland's only extinct volcano is in Co Wicklow. It is called the Sugarloaf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,608 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    Ennis Kilrush Killaloe Kilkee.

    Wicklow, Arklow, Bray.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,721 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    I was so proud when I learned to spell Czechoslovakia but its not come in handy until now.


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