1/4 inch audio tape. Contains Sandymount beach with traffic road; train up and past with children in background; dog running on beach; distant traffic with kids shouts; school boys chattering (about 12); whooper and mute swans at Arklow (with mutes rearing up and flapping); whoopers good and take off on water; stormy sea at Arklow beach, second take, very good. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
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1/4 inch audio tape. Contains whooper swans at Arklow, rookery in background; several takes of same; whoopers, quieter atmosphere, very good; take two, whoopers, quiet atmosphere; whoopers with louder rookery, very good; whoopers good (recorded with high gain). Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains Sync Arklow beach, 1-1, 1-2; Arklow Dump; Seagulls and starlings etc., distant and closer and with jackdaws; various takes; starlings at dump, seagulls in background, very good. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains Boyne Estuary, dogs and distant birds; woodland, cool, short; song thrush, rockbrook; blackbird, warning call, dog and cat; Greylags through wood, Blessington, distant; woodland atmosphere with wind in bushes and distant cock; tripod noises with geese; greylags good; greylags good and distant; single greylag distant. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains greylag geese grazing, quiet; greylag geese take off; greylag geese, loop, 2 minutes ok. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Contains knots at Boyne (poor); recorded by Dave Shaw Smith are two stroke engine, start, run, stop and voices (eel generator); stone polisher; Wessex wire saw; wooden mallet on chisel; small pneumatic hand hammer; sand blaster; lettering machine (pantograph); slextol saw; general atmosphere, short; general chat (poor). Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recording of Fingal Hounds. Contains distant horses (80) on road, approach and past walking then trot, then shouts; hounds distant and general atmosphere at road; sheep and lambs and single horse on road up and past; sheep and lambs and close and voices and hooves; horses at ditch (stragglers); horses at ditch, good; sheep and lambs, very good, close; horses up and past on road trot (3) then car; hounds distant then neighs then shouts; man beating horse distant then neighs; single rider at ditch (youth); wind in mic atmosphere; hunt approach hayrick (beware snow in mic); slushy sound of hooves, good; hounds distant and wind and shouts then horses past and splash onto road. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recording of Fingal Hounds (continued). Contains atmosphere distant hounds, poor; hounds distant and sheep, windy; horses on road, men chatter about stag and fox, then trotting, then odd noise; horn then hunt enters gate, very good; horses trot on mud then canter away; horses approach cantering to gate; dogs (2) on farm, distant voices, very good; hounds distant, good, false start; shouts distant then horn and hounds, then horses past mic; shouts distant good then windy; Micky walking in grass, short; Micky and Éamon chat; Rush of hunt at gate, chat and horn, controlling dogs, traffic etc., horses onto road etc. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recorded at King's farm near Ashbourne. Contains horses approach on road and into gate and mother's chatter; horses walk on mud, squelch!; horses jump ditch close at trot; second take; chatter of riders, horses standing and them trot off; horses approach at gallop and past; horses approach at canter and past; horses approach at trot and past; horses approach at gallop and past, very good; horses walk and snort and pant; Lyre Hunt 101, third slate, instructing young rider; young rider at ditch; horses walk on mud and chatter; horses walk on mud and snorts. Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.
1/4 inch audio tape. Recording of Fingal Hunt continued, the kennel sequence. Contains taking horse from stable and inspecting hay horse trot, voices etc; Paddy Shanahan shouts and Micky and horse trot (unsound horse); Entering kennels and dogs exit, shouts, inspects first dog then more, Micky shouting "get back"; drawing hounds continued; hounds quieter, spraying dogs foot; counting dogs (8 couples); calling "Toaster"; Bitches come out and inspection; continue inspection, good quiet dogs; letting bitches into hounds' pen; voices "get in"; hounds coming out of pen and whip; hounds in yard, Micky "Get In". Recorded at 7.5 ips in mono.