There also is (or certainly was up to a few years ago) a metal statue of Master McGrath just outside Craigavon Civic Centre, the headquarters of Craigavon District Council (which covers the towns of Lurgan and Portadown, in North Armagh, Northern Ireland). The statue is unmistakeably masculine in its characteristics!

There was also a locally (ie Northern Ireland, possibly Co. Armagh) produced dogfood called "Master McGrath" but I don't know if it still produced.

Although it appears that Master McGrath was named after someone from Co. Waterford, there are certainly a few people of that surname in Co. Armagh (including 3 people at my place of employment, though 2, who started about the same time and also shared the same Christian name, soon left and the other recently changed her name). This is interesting as it is, I believe, a less common name in Northern Ireland than the Republic of Ireland. I have also heard it pronounce "McGra'" and "McGrath".

There is presumably still a strong local tradition of keeping greyhounds as about 2 years ago the above council built a so-called "greyhound gallop" beside the Craigavon Lakes (a local recreation area). As a conservationist I greatly deplored this (its original siting threatened a colony of rare orchids, though fortunately it was moved some distance away), though the important point here is that there was supposedly a demand for it (though I have only once seen anyone using it!).

Robin Morton of "Boys of the Lough" (also originally from Portadown) sang a song called "Jackson and Jane" about a talking racehorse called "Jane" owned by a Hugh Jackson of Co. Monaghan, on the first Boys of the Lough album. Possibly this refers to a real horse and owner. In the sleeve notes he says that Jane is Ulster's Stewball. Steeleye Span did a version called "Stewball" (or possibly "Skewball").

As we all know, no-one can talk to a horse, unless that horse should happen to be Mr. Ed!