Bits of geography information you remember from primary scho

mikemac1 · 25-01-2015 10:46pm

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!!

Daenarys · 25-01-2015 10:48pm

Lucyfur wrote: »

And sedimentary rocks. I don't remember anything about them. Just the name.

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

Bruthal · 25-01-2015 10:50pm

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.

cml387 · 25-01-2015 10:50pm

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

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:)).

Meangadh · 25-01-2015 10:55pm

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.

ronnie3585 · 25-01-2015 10:58pm

Clints and grikes.

Karst landscape.

Asarlai · 25-01-2015 10:59pm

cml387 wrote: »

Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

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

coolhull · 25-01-2015 11:02pm

Pollaphouca means the ''Ghost's Hole''

The Peanut · 25-01-2015 11:03pm

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.

looksee · 25-01-2015 11:04pm

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.

cml387 · 25-01-2015 11:05pm

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.

mickstupp · 25-01-2015 11:05pm

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.

The Peanut · 25-01-2015 11:09pm

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

coolhull · 25-01-2015 11:11pm

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

Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
Lake Superior

4zn76tysfajdxp · 25-01-2015 11:12pm

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

Andrewf20 · 25-01-2015 11:13pm

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

Ihatecuddles · 25-01-2015 11:15pm

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.

RobertKK · 25-01-2015 11:18pm

Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia existed.
12 countries in the EEC.

cml387 · 25-01-2015 11:20pm

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.

RobertKK · 25-01-2015 11:25pm

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

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.

Tonyandthewhale · 25-01-2015 11:26pm

cml387 wrote: »

Thurles,Mallow,Tuam and Carlow have what in common?

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

Queenalocin · 25-01-2015 11:32pm

allthedoyles wrote: »

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!

Uncle Ben · 25-01-2015 11:35pm

Indepth study's of Youghal on a OS map.

GerB40 · 25-01-2015 11:38pm

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..

GobBass · 25-01-2015 11:39pm

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.

GerB40 · 25-01-2015 11:46pm

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...

_Jumper_ · 25-01-2015 11:49pm

Gweedore is in Donegal.

conorh91 · 25-01-2015 11:52pm

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.

Arbitrary · 26-01-2015 12:01am

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

Fagashlil · 26-01-2015 12:04am

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!!

Miss Demeanour · 26-01-2015 12:08am

For European geography.....

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

Meangadh · 26-01-2015 12:50am

Miss Demeanour wrote: »

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!

Meangadh · 26-01-2015 12:57am

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.

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

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

DakarVert · 26-01-2015 12:58am

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

thelad95 · 26-01-2015 1:01am

The Panama Canal.

Cool temperate oceanic climate.

Latitude and Longitude.

The MacGillicuddy Reeks.

Mt. Everest.

One eyed Jack · 26-01-2015 1:28am

Brest, a town in France...

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

Asarlai · 26-01-2015 1:43am

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

peckerhead · 26-01-2015 1:47am

Bituminous schists.

Never did manage to get me some.

thelad95 · 26-01-2015 1:48am

Cumulus clouds

The Royal Scam · 26-01-2015 1:52am

Knockmealdon down the Blackstairs

Duddy · 26-01-2015 1:53am

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...

Asarlai · 26-01-2015 2:04am

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.

The Backwards Man · 26-01-2015 2:09am

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