Irish Greyhound Pig - Misplaced Pages

The Irish Greyhound pig, was the common pig in Ireland up to the 18th and 19th centuries and it survived in domestication until the start of the 20th. It was reported by Watson (1999) to have been rather unsympathetically described as a very rough race of animals- colour white, standing very high on the legs, with narrow carcasses,thick coarse bone,rough bristles,long noses and hanging ears. He also reports them as having been described as being rather slow to mature. The negative tone in descriptions of the pigs, it has been suggested, might be due to the difficulties faced by poor farmers having sufficient food for their pigs. Savage (1964) suggest the origins of these pigs is likely to have been directly from the wild boar rather than from the stock of other British domestic pigs. Savage (1964, citing Scharff) reports the last surviving Greyhound pigs being recorded in County Galway from about 1900 and that remains were held in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

References

Watson, M. (1998). The role of the pig in food conservation and storage in traditional Irish farming. Environmental Archaeology, 3(1), 63-68.
Savage, R. J. G. (1964). Post Glacial Wild Boar from Belfast Lough. The Irish Naturalists' Journal, 303-305.
Iomaire, M. M. C. (2003, January). The Pig in Irish Cuisine past and present. In The Fat of the Land: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking 2002. Oxford Symposium.
Fitzgerald, O. (2005). The Irish'Greyhound'Pig: an extinct indigenous breed of Pig. History Ireland, 20-23.
McMillan, N. F. (1960). Ancient Irish" Greyhound" Pig. The Irish Naturalists' Journal, 170-171.
Scharff, R. F. K. (1917). On the Irish Pig. Irish Nat. XXVI, 173-185.
https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/the-irish-greyhound-pig-an-extinct-indigenous-breed-of-pig/ Fitzgerald, Oisín (nd) The Irish Greyhound Pig: An extinct indigenous breed of pig, History Ireland

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