the country

It's a funny thing about Ireland, well Dublin actually and how self centred Dubliners are. People from Dublin will refer to everywhere outside of Dublin as being "the country". Do a person can be from a city like Cork or somewhere, yet to a Dubliner, on hearing their accent will consider them to be someone "from the country". Anything that isn't Dublin is something of an unknown, and presumed to be fields of cows or wheat and whatnot. And no, we're not likely to know what a heifer is or if it differs from a cow.