Atty Hayes’s goat [n. phr. ] as in as oldas Atty Hayes’s goat [catchphrase] ( Cork ) . Very old. 1996 Irish Times, 6May: ‘To be as old as Atty Hayes’s goat isstill, in Cork, an indication of great
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antiquity and recalls an animal beloved of
the father of Sir Henry Brown Hayes,
who built Vernon Mount [Corraghconway, near Douglas] in 1780. ’
